Help:Network Drive
Accessing Your UNIX Home Directory[edit]
To access your unix home directory from windows (available on some servers only) you have to map it to a drive by following these steps:
- Right click on the My Computer or Network Neighborhood icons and select from the menu Map network drive.
- In the Path box, type \\smb.mmae.ucf.edu\login, where login is your login name, and press enter.
- Type your login name in the Connect as box, and type your unix password in the Password box
This will create a drive letter that corresponds to your Carnot home directory.
WARNING: Remember to right click the drive and click disconnect before leaving (or log out of windows completely). Otherwise the next person who logs in will be able to access your home directory!
Problems[edit]
- If it does not accept your password or does not ask for a password, make sure you are logging in as the correct user, and not guest. If it wants to log you in as guest, click cancel, and then click on log on as a different user.
- If this does not work, make sure no other users have mapped drives. Either log them out, or use \\smb.mmae.ucf.edu\login instead of mmae to allow both users to be logged in.
- If you have not done this before, you may need to synchronize your windows password with your unix password. To do this, from a unix prompt (use putty if necessary), type winpw and enter your unix password.
- Map network drive does NOT work between different networks on campus. If you want to map a network drive from an engineering server, you must be on the engineering building wired network, not on the wireless network, or some other building's network.
- An alternative to map network drive is scp or winscp, see help:ssh
Mapping your Harris lab network drive[edit]
If you log in through the domain, your H: drive should be automatically mapped. However, sometimes this fails, and it is possible to manually map it anyway, weather or not you are logged into the domain.
If you are on a compute wired to the engineering network, use map your H: drive as \\cecs\dfs\StudentFiles\NID and use your harris lab password.
If you are on the wireless network or off campus, you can access your H: drive as http://storage.cecs.ucf.edu/ and log in with your NID and harris lab password.