

The drive is now mapped and can be accessed under Finder > Shared When prompted, enter your username and password and select Connect. Note: Make sure you use a forward slash (/) and not a backslash (\). In the ‘ Connect to Server’ window, type: cifs://IP Address or afp://IP Address (ex.

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Now that you have the IP address of the drive, make sure that you see Finder in the top left corner of your screen, then click on Go, then Connect to Server. Once you have located the MAC address, look to the right and make note of the IP address associated with the MAC address. All Seagate NAS units start with 00:10:75, however terminal will only display the first zero. Note: You can find the MAC address on the bottom, or backside of your Seagate NAS. Locate the Seagate NAS MAC address in the list. You will see a list of IP and MAC addresses. Make sure you see ‘Finder’ in the top left corner of your screen (by clicking the desktop first) then click on Go, then Utilities. (Only applies to Seagate NAS Pro 4 and 6-bay models) - If you find the IP address with this method, or already know the IP address, skip to step 6 below. See this section of the Seagate NAS Pro user manual for more information. Note: On Seagate NAS Pro models with the LCD monitoring screen on the front, you can find its assigned IP address there instead of looking in the Arp table from Terminal (as described in the steps below). Below are instructions for connecting to a NAS from Mac OSX using a different method: You may be experiencing an issue after updating to El Capitan (Mac OS 10.11) when trying to view your NAS in Finder: it shows up as a question mark, or it just gives an error message when trying to connect to it. This article addresses an El Capitan (Mac OS 10.11) Finder issue when trying to connect to a Network Attached Storage device.
