** For more details about mapping drives on a Mac, see Connecting to Network Storage on a Mac. If you are unsure of what either path should be, contact the TTS Service Desk at or call (617) 627-3376. Q: or R: drive syntax = \\ server\ departmental-sever\ your_department P: drive syntax = \\\ your_tufts_username Therefore, the best practice is to always use \\ ( smb:// on a Mac) when mapping your Tufts network drives. The use of \\titan\xxxxxxxx will work when physically on the Tufts network, but you must use the fully qualified domain name of \\\xxxxxxxx when connecting from a remote location. n means newline, and not the backslash character followed by the n character). Yes, I know this sounds weird, but think of it this way - in order to represent special characters, backslash was chosen as an escaping character (e.g.
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