I have a PC box running Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials to host all of our media/photos/documents. We recently replaced an old Win7 computer with our first Mac mini. It's running OSX Yosemite currently. I'm a Mac newbie so I'm having a hard time understanding what's the best way to:
1) add the Mac Mini as a client computer to the network, and be able to back up the Mac to the Windows server, and
2) how do I permanently mount/add the shared folders from the server in OSX?
Getting #1 to work may not be critical at the moment because I do have an external HDD hooked up to the Mac mini directly and have Time Machine enabled for backup. But my wife has been bugging me about being able to see our photos and videos, which are all saved on our server. What's the equivalent of "mounting a network drive" in OSX?
Thanks.
1) add the Mac Mini as a client computer to the network, and be able to back up the Mac to the Windows server, and
2) how do I permanently mount/add the shared folders from the server in OSX?
Getting #1 to work may not be critical at the moment because I do have an external HDD hooked up to the Mac mini directly and have Time Machine enabled for backup. But my wife has been bugging me about being able to see our photos and videos, which are all saved on our server. What's the equivalent of "mounting a network drive" in OSX?
Thanks.