Linux: Ubuntu GUI
- In the file manager, click Other Locations in the side bar.
- Select Connect to Server and then input your Research Data Storage share in the following format
- Feinberg: smb://fsmresfiles.fsm.northwestern.edu/fsmresfiles/share_path
- Audited: smb://resfilesaudit.northwestern.edu/share_name
- Not audited: smb://resfiles.northwestern.edu/share_name
- Select Connect. You will be asked to authenticate
- Username: "ads/NetID"
- Password: NetID password
Linux Command Line
- Identify your server
- Feinberg: //fsmresfiles.fsm.northwestern.edu/fsmresfiles
- Audited: //resfilesaudit.northwestern.edu
- Not audited: //resfiles.northwestern.edu
- Make sure you have:
- The full path to your share: //servername/share-path
- Common Internet File System (CIFS) installed. To Install:
- with apt-get:
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
- with yum:
sudo yum install -y cifs-utils
- Logged on to your linux machine as root
- Create the directory you would like to use as a mount point (For example: #
mkdir -p /mnt/mountpoint
)
- Use the mount command as follows:
mount -t cifs //server-name/share-path /mnt/mountpoint -o username=NetID,domain=ads
replacing NetID with your NetID. You will be prompted to enter your NetID password.
Once the share is mounted, you can access its contents by