{"id":1809,"date":"2016-03-31T09:26:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T15:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/cnsit\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2022-04-25T14:57:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T20:57:39","slug":"mac-how-to-get-pangea-to-show-up-on-my-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/mac-how-to-get-pangea-to-show-up-on-my-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac: How to get Pangea to show up on my desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a default Finder setting on all new Macintosh computers, that prevent networked servers from showing up as icons on the desktop.&nbsp; Since Pangea is a networked server, we often receive help requests asking why Pangea isn&#8217;t connecting when using the connection app.&nbsp; It turns out, Pangea is actually connecting successfully, it is just that the Macintosh OS isn&#8217;t showing you an icon on your desktop.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, the configuration fix is simple.&nbsp; To enable &#8220;Connected servers&#8221; to display on your desktop for your Mac, select the Finder Preferences item:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/finder_menu.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1813\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1813\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/finder_menu-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"finder_menu\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/finder_menu-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/finder_menu.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>You will then see the following dialog window &#8211; make sure you are selecting the &#8220;General&#8221; tab at the top of this window!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/finder_preferences.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1814\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1814\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/finder_preferences-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"finder_preferences\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/finder_preferences-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/finder_preferences.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In here, make sure to at least check the option for &#8220;Connected servers&#8221;.&nbsp; Personally, I always check all four options, but that is a subjective preference.&nbsp; Once you do this, network shares, including a connection Pangea share, will show up on the desktop!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a default Finder setting on all new Macintosh computers, that prevent networked servers from showing up as icons on the desktop.&nbsp; Since Pangea is a networked server, we often receive help requests asking why Pangea isn&#8217;t connecting when using the connection app.&nbsp; It turns out, Pangea is actually connecting successfully, it is just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple","category-pangea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4470,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/4470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}