Accessing the shared company file from Mac OS X workstations

> Accessing the shared company file from Mac OS X workstations

note : Using AccountEdge Network Edition

This section is only for users running AccountEdge (standard edition). If you are using AccountEdge Network Edition, refer to the equivalent procedure in the AccountEdge Network Edition Implementation Guide.

Workstations are Macintosh computers that access a company file stored on another computer, referred to as a host computer. Accessing the remote Public folder located on the host requires you to complete these procedures for each Macintosh workstation on the LAN running Mac OS X:


Task		See
1	Install AccountEdge	Getting Started guide
2	Activate TCP/IP on a Mac OSX host or workstation	To activate TCP/IP on a Mac OS X host or workstation
3	Access the remote Public folder	To access the remote Public folder (Mac OS X)

To access the remote Public folder (Mac OS X)

The company file may be stored on a remote Mac OS X or Windows host computer. This procedure shows how to access the remote Public folder and ensure that the Macintosh workstation connects to it automatically when you log in.

1	In the Finder, go to the Go menu and choose Connect to Server.

2	Click Browse (Mac OS X 10.4 only) or type the URL for the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP, that is, TCP/IP) in the Server Address field, for example, afp://192.168.75.5.

3	Click Connect. The Connect to file server … window appears.

4	Click Guest and then click Connect.

5	In the Select the volumes … window, click the remote user folder to be mounted (for example, share folder) and click OK. A network disk icon appears on the desktop.

Note that if the host is a Windows computer, the shared Public folder is listed, not the user folder.

6	Open the System Preferences and click Accounts. The Accounts window appears.

7	Click the Login Items tab and drag the network disk icon from the desktop into the Login Items list. Note that if the host is a Windows computer, the shared Public folder is listed, not the user folder.

The network disk is added to the list as a folder item. (Do not select the Hide option next to the network disk item.)

Now, at each login the user’s workstation will be connected to the remote Public folder on the host computer. When you store company files in this shared Public folder on a host they can be accessed from workstations.

tip : Access the remote company file with an alias

Open the shared Public folder, click the company file, create an alias, and drag the alias to the desktop. Next time you start the computer, double-click on the company file’s alias to open the shared file.