Photo and Video Drive Mapping

How to map shared drive for photo and video courses for Mac and Windows devices.

Important: This only works on campus connected to eduroam or on VPN when off campus.

Windows Drive Mapping

Right click the Start button (4 blue squares at the bottom left of your screen)

Select File Explorer

image of start menue

Right click This PC and select Map network drive...

Image of right click menu

Select a letter for the Drive: or leave as is.

Enter into the Folder: section the path of the share you are trying to connect to. See below for examples.

Check Reconnect at sign-in and Connect using different credentials.

Click Finish

image of network drive mapping config window

PHOTO-310-001:

\\videofs.uwstout.edu\photo_310_001$

PHOTO-310-002:

\\videofs.uwstout.edu\photo_310_002$

PHOTO-330-001:

\\videofs.uwstout.edu\photo_330_001$

PHOTO-330-002:

\\videofs.uwstout.edu\photo_330_002$

PHOTO-411-001:

\\videofs.uwstout.edu\photo_411_001$

PHOTO-411-002:

\\videofs.uwstout.edu\photo_411_002$

VID-430:

\\videofs.uwstout.edu\vid_430$

Click More choices

Windows Security window

Click Use a different account

Enter network credentials window

Enter your username and password in the format in the image below. Check Remember my credentials and then click OK.

Example of credentials

If all was entered correctly, a new window will open to the share location.

Mac Drive Mapping

  1. Right click the Finder icon in your Dock.

    Finder

  2. Select Connect to Server…

  3. In the Server Address field, enter your drive path

    Server

  4. Click Connect.

When prompted for credentials:

  1. Select Registered User.

    Username and password

  2. Enter your username in the following format:
    uwstout-mail\username1234
    (Replace username1234 with your actual username.)

  3. Enter your Stout account password.

  4. Click Connect.

If everything is entered correctly, the network drive should connect.

 



Keywords:
photo, video, drive, mapping, shared 
Doc ID:
154889
Owned by:
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Created:
2025-09-17
Updated:
2026-02-25
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