One of my colleagues is telling me that she cannot access our intranet from home (which requires the username to be entered as “domainname\username”) because the Mac that she is using does not have an \ key.
Since I do not have access to a Mac, I can’t check this out for myself, but 
seriously?
Grim
Mine does \\\right next to the return key\\\
Don’t recall it being missing on any of the other macs I’ve had, either. Maybe she has a non standard keyboard, but it will be somewhere to be found (might have to try the alt key or alt shift, I guess)
There are no \ key on my ibook keyboard, maybe that’s what she’s using.
Does it look like this?
I can see a \ key above the return key there.
I find it difficult to imagine Apple producing a keyboard without one.
She is apparantly using an i-Mac G5 FWIW…
Grim
Presuming it’s the standard wireless keyboard it will be near the return key, either above or to the right, as I recall (working from home on my imac G4 so can’t check). Otherwise she’ll have to check out what she can find using alt or alt-shift.
The Apple standard keyboard and the Apple wireless keyboard both have a ‘’ key, immediately above the return key.
Both my iBook G4 and my MDD G4 keyboards have . Just above the enter key.
::rummages around:: And my Quadra 700('91) and Mac SE FDHD('89) both have it too.
I kinda doubt that Apple would remove a key that’s been around for at least 17 years (anybody with a 128K Mac around? That would push it back to 21 years).
Here’s a few extras I have just laying around she can borrow\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\. 
If she can’t find the key (She’d probably not looking very hard), she might be able to enter the username as username@domain instead.
Hey - that’s a good trick!!
I’ll get her to look a little harder first before I tell her about the other thing - too much information causes confusion.
Thanks for the help folks!!
Grim
I can’t believe this topic exist :smack:
It doesn’t look like this at all, guess it’s us french (or euro maybe) ibook folks who got shafted with this argh.
part of my keyboard:
(Please don’t tell me ibooks in the usa have a delete key, I lack this too.)
Yeah, fn-Backspace.
Many thanks!
Mind your language, young man. This isn’t the Pit. 
The ‘’ character is in standard ASCII and has been available on Mac keyboards since Day One. The last Apple computer that didn’t include a backslash key was probably the Apple II Plus, circa 1979, which also had no lowercase letters.
So, the ‘’ key is on there, somewhere, I can almost guarantee you — unless someone pried it off with a screwdriver.
Try apple key + shift + / on the Apple azerty keyboard.
Well, to me, the obvious solution is to have this friend just copy and paste one of our extra 's from here, or to learn the Alt code (or the mac equivalent) for it, just like he or she would have to do if he wanted to type accent marks.
The Mac equivalent of alt codes is the alt key (which has very few other uses) combined with the regular keyboard keys (and possibly the shift key). So the yen sign (¥), for instance, is alt-y. But for something like backslash, the Mac equivalent of alt codes would just be the backslash key. Which should certainly be in plain sight on any keyboard attached to a G5 computer.
just get her to copy and paste from somewhere else.
This might help: