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#You will be prompted for a username and password. These will be your evergreen.edu credentials.
 
#You will be prompted for a username and password. These will be your evergreen.edu credentials.
 
#Once this is done, you'll have read and write access to your share
 
#Once this is done, you'll have read and write access to your share
 
;See also
 
*[[Connect to Filespace - Mac OS X]]
 
*[[Connect to Filespace - Windows]]
 
 
  
 
[[Category:File Space]]
 
[[Category:File Space]]

Revision as of 16:21, 13 April 2010

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
  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
  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