Difference between revisions of "Connect to Filespace - Linux"

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These instructions are for the GNOME desktop.

On-Campus Access

1. Go to 'Places' , then 'Connect to Server'.
2. Select 'Windows share' under 'Service type'.
3. Type in the name of the server you want to connect to in the 'Server:' field
   • examples:
   • smb://hurricane for faculty and staff file server
   • smb://orca for students and academic file shares (programs, groups, research, student)
4. Type in the name of the share or folder in the 'Share' field
   • examples:
   • Hurricane users: select the first letter of your last name, or workgroup share
   • Orca users: select programs (for academic programs), groups, research or students
5. Click Connect!

Off-Campus Access

Read Only Access

1. In a web browser go to the share you want to connect to
   • examples:
   • Hurricane = https://files.evergreen.edu
   • Orca programs = https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/academics/programs
   • Orca groups = https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/academics/acadgroups
   • Orca research = https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/academics/research
   • Orca students = https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/homes/students
2. login when prompted using your Evergreen username and password

Read/Write Access

1. Install davfs2, either through your package manager or by building from the source found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dav/files/
2. Open a Terminal and become root (sudo -i) for the following commands.
3. Create a mount point for the share you want to connect to.
   • Example: mkdir /mnt/my_mount
4. In a web browser go to the share you want to connect to
   • examples:
   • Hurricane = https://files.evergreen.edu
   • Orca programs = https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/academics/programs
   • Orca groups = https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/academics/acadgroups
   • Orca research = https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/academics/research
   • Orca students = https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/homes/students
5. Right click on the folder that you want and copy the link.
6. Type this command into your Teminal:
   • mount.davfs -ouid=username,gid=groupname https://serverpath/folder /mnt/my_mount
     replacing the following:
   • "username" with your own local username
   • "groupname" with your groupname (find out by typing: id -n -g)
   • "https://serverpath/folder" with the link you copied above
   • and "/mnt/my_mount" with the directory you created as a mount point above
7. You will be prompted for a username and password. These will be your evergreen.edu credentials.
8. Once this is done, you'll have read and write access to your share