Mapping sharepoint 2013 Network drive to Mac

Question

I'm trying to map a network drive of sharepoint 2013 online to my Mac os X. I'm following this link - http://www.usciences.edu/it/helpdesk/forstudents/MacDriveMapping.shtml , url of my network drive is - https://moonraftinnovationlabs-public.sharepoint.com/_catalogs/masterpage/

I have a username and pwd for it

Whenever I click on connect it says - "problem connecting to the drive. Contact your system administrator for more information"

Answer 1

OS X doesn't (directly) support MS SharePoint. The link you gave describes how to map a folder shared over the SMB protocol, not SharePoint (although the same basic process would also work for the AFP, WebDAV, or NFS protocols). If you need to access SharePoint from OS X, you need to use a browser (Safari and Firefox are supported), or Microsoft Office for Mac (see this blog entry). In any case, you won't be able to access it from the Finder, or "map" it in the sense you're looking for.

Answer 2

I have connected to Sharepoint folders in OSX using HTTPS. It's buggy and slow though. In finder I go to "Go" and select "Connect to server." Then I enter the URL of the folder in the sharepoint site. An example:

https://intranet.BLAHBLAH.edu/departments/BLAH/Technology/Shared%20Docs

However as commenter wilsjd pointed out, it has very limited functionality. I found I could download but not save/upload. The officially supported "solution" is Microsoft Document Connection, which allows uploads but in a very inefficient and clunky manner.