Difference between revisions of "Connect to Orca Research- Linux"

Latest revision as of 15:22, 3 May 2010

These instructions are for the GNOME desktop.

On-Campus Access to Orca Research

1. Go to 'Places' , then 'Connect to Server'.
2. Select 'Windows share' under 'Service type'.
3. Type in 'orca' in the 'Server:' field.
4. Type in the 'research' in the 'Share' field.
5. Click Connect!

Off-Campus Access to Orca Research

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 Orca Students: mkdir /mnt/orca_research
4. In a web browser (Firefox) go to https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/academics/Research
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://myfiles.evergreen.edu/academics/programs /mnt/orca_programs
     replacing the following:
   • "username" with your own local username
   • "groupname" with your groupname (find out by typing: id -n -g)
   • "https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/academics/research" with the link you copied in step 5.
   • and "/mnt/orca_research" with the directory you created as a mount point in step 3.
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 access to your student share at /mnt/orca_research!