Can not get mapping to work properly!

I am new to a MAC and always worked on PC's for IT work. I decided to purchase a MAC for myself to play and learn. Well I would like to connect to my work servers and after hours of messing with it, I figured out the SMB part and got it on. Now I can't figure out why it only is accepting the IP address of the server and not the name. For example:

smb://10.x.x.x/data Works

But this doesn't.

smb://ntserver3/data

Why? I would like to get this working so then I can map the drives automatically. But also I notice when I mapped the IP it mapped it to the root of the server instead of the actual folder. Any ideas how to hide the server but only show the folder?

Thanks!

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Still need help on this please!

Okay, I found out that it maps the drives fine at work actually on the network, but when I use the VPN at home I can not get it to map the drives other than with a IP. Any ideas how to resolve that?

VPN is Microsoft PPTP.

You're having a DNS issue. The easiest thing to do (if that IP is static) would be to put a host record in your HOSTS file.

Mac OS X: How to Add Hosts to Local Hosts File

Well this box uses DHCP as it moves around as a laptop. I didn't have an entries in the DNS for the VPN. That might be why. I put the local DNS servers on the VPN network in there and will test that tonight to see if it works by using those.

I was referring to the IP of the server, is that dynamic?

The servers are not dynamic they are static. Do you think what I did above will solve the problem or do you think I still need to do the hosts file? Sorry. We have 7 servers, and 3 of them I would need to access over the VPN.

nizmoz said:

The servers are not dynamic they are static. Do you think what I did above will solve the problem or do you think I still need to do the hosts file? Sorry. We have 7 servers, and 3 of them I would need to access over the VPN.

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I'm pretty sure. I haven't supported a VPN infrastructure in quite a long time, so I'm not terribly familiar with connecting to one from a Mac.

I will let you know tonight. Thanks cwa.