When you are done, you disconnect by selecting the disk and choosing Eject from the File Menu. The share will mount as any other disk would. Select the appropriate share, and click OK. All shares to which you have access should appear in the list.

You will then be prompted with a dialog to select the name of the share that you wish to connect to.

Click Connect (or OK, on older versions of OS X). In the window, enter AD for the domain, and enter your BU login name and Kerberos password.

This will bring up an authentication window.

Enter the server name in the box in the format of smb://servername, where 'servername' is replaced with the actual name of the server. Join the Mac to the domain following the above instructions making sure to tick the checkbox for Create mobile account at login (this must be done on campus.

Go to the Go menu and choose Connect to Server.Note that if you are off campus, you will generally need to connect to the VPN first. Note that you will need to know the name of the server and file share that you are connecting to ahead of time this information will most likely be provided by an instructor if you are a student or by a departmental administrator if you are faculty or staff.

You may connect to Active Directory resources at Boston University with Mac OS X version 10.2 or later.

Add mac to active directory domain