Here’s another great little snippet to add to my ‘how to disable’ series!
The OS X Finder’s ‘Connect to Server’ menubar option allows a user to specify a network address to connect to for services such as file sharing and VNC.
If you decide that you don’t want users to be able to access the OS X Finder’s ‘Connect to Server’ menubar option as shown below, this can easily be disabled.
To remove the ‘Connect to Server’ option, all you need to do is log in as an admin user and enter one line of command in the Terminal application (located in /Applications/Utilities/) as shown below:
defaults write com.apple.finder ProhibitConnectTo -bool true;killall Finder
Notice the ‘Connect to Server’ option is now missing and also the hot keys of ‘CMD’ + ‘K’ do not work either:
If you do want to revert back to the default setting, just enter the following command:
defaults write com.apple.finder ProhibitConnectTo -bool false;killall Finder
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This feature has been tested using OS X v10.8.4 which was the latest Mac OS release at the time of writing.