Overview
While on Purdue campus or working remotely, you may need to map your U: and V: drives on a Purdue-owned or personally owned Mac computer (meaning it was not provided by Purdue University). In this article, we will guide you through mapping your U: and V: drives.
Please note that this is specifically for Daniels School of Business faculty, staff, and students.
Instructions
In the steps below, we will instruct you how to map your U: and V: drives on your Mac computer.
- Open Finder
- Click Go and then Connect to Server...

- Below are the paths you will want to enter in order to connect to each Network Drive
U: smb://wl.mydata.purdue.edu/dsb_users
V: smb://wl.mydata.purdue.edu/dsb_groups
*If you are off campus, you will need to connect to the Purdue VPN to access the network drives.
VPN Instructions
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