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These instructions are for the GNOME desktop.
  
 
===On-Campus Access to Orca Students===
 
===On-Campus Access to Orca Students===
  
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; At you office/personal computer (you want the drive to always be there)
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#Go to 'Places' , then 'Connect to Server'.
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# Right Click on the "My Computer" icon from the Start Menu or Desktop
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#Select 'Windows share' under 'Service type'.
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# Select "Map Network Drive"
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#Type in 'orca' in the 'Server:' field.  
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# Enter \\orca.evergreen.edu\students
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#Type in the 'students' in the 'Share' field.  
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# Make sure that the "Reconnect at login" check box is checked
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#Click Connect!
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# Click "Finish"
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; At a computer in one of the labs (you are only going to use it on this computer once)
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# Click the Start button and select Run...  
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# Type "\\orca\students" (figure 1)
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# Click OK.
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# Double-click on the folder you need (e.g. the first letter of your last name).
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===Off-Campus Access to Orca Research===
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; Read only
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From a web browser go to https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/students.
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; Read and write
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===Off-Campus Access to Orca Students===
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requires mapping a network drive to https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/students
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# Double click on My Computer
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#Install davfs2, either through your package manager or by building from the source found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dav/files/
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# Choose "My Network Places" from the list of Other Places on the left section
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#Open a Terminal and become root (<code>sudo -i</code>) for the following commands.
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# Choose "Add a Network Place" from Network Tasks.  This begins the Add Network Place Wizard
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#Create a mount point for Orca Students: <code>mkdir /mnt/orca_students</code>
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# Click Next
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#In a web browser (Firefox) go to '''https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/academics/students'''  
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# Select "Choose another network location".  Click Next
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#Right click on the folder that you want and copy the link.
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# In the space provided, type https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/students
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#Type this command into your Teminal:
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# You may be prompted for your log in information, if so, provide your evergreen log in.
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#*<code>mount.davfs -ouid=username,gid=groupname https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/academics/programs /mnt/orca_programs</code> <br />replacing the following:
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# You will be asked to name the network place. This can be anything you want
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#* "username" with your own local username
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# The wizard will ask if you wish to open the network place when you choose finish, check or uncheck the box as desired. Click Finish
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#* "groupname" with your groupname (find out by typing: <code>id -n -g</code>)
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# This will create a new icon in My Network Places that corresponds to the location on Hurricane you just added.
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#* "https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/academics/students" with the link you copied in step 5.
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# You maybe asked to authenticate (login) as you browse around.  If this happens press cancel and you should see your files.
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#* and "/mnt/orca_students" with the directory you created as a mount point in step 3.
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#You will be prompted for a username and password. These will be your evergreen.edu credentials.
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#Once this is done, you'll have access to your student share at /mnt/orca_students!

Latest revision as of 16:23, 3 May 2010

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These instructions are for the GNOME desktop.

On-Campus Access to Orca Students

  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 'students' in the 'Share' field.
  5. Click Connect!

Off-Campus Access to Orca Students

  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_students
  4. In a web browser (Firefox) go to https://myfiles.evergreen.edu/academics/students
  5. Right click on the folder that you want and copy the link.
  6. Type this command into your Teminal:
  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_students!
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