Remote Access for Z Drives

In progress

Windows

1. Connect to the CS VPN. Instructions on doing so can be found here.
2. Open Windows File Explorer either by right clicking the “Start” button and selecting “File Explorer” or by pressing ⊞WIN + E
3. Right click “This PC” and select “Map network drive…”

   

   
   

4. Type the network location (folder) of your drive, select “Connect using different credentials,” and click “Finish.” If you don’t know the network location of your drive, see the table below. Be sure to replace “username” with your CS username:

   

   
   

5. Enter your CS account credentials prepended by “cs\” and click “OK”

   

   
   

6. Your Z drive should now be connected. Note that it will not be available if you disconnect from the VPN.

   

   
   

Linux

CIFS

Note that this method will require super user privileges. If you are not a privileged user, see SSHFS below.

1. Install the cifs-utils package from your distribution's package manager

SSHFS

1. Install sshfs from your distribution's package manager

MacOS

1. From the Go menu, select "Connect to Server"
2. Type in your network location from the table below. Replace all backslashes "\" with forward slashes "/" and prepend the path with smb:. For example:

   $ smb://cifs-dgs.cs.odu.edu/Undergrad/username

Network locations

Account type	Network location
Undergraduate	\\cifs-dgs.cs.odu.edu\Undergrad\username
Graduate	\\cifs-ecs.cs.odu.edu\Grad\username
Staff	\\cifs-dgs.cs.odu.edu\Staff\username
Faculty	\\cifs-ecs.cs.odu.edu\Faculty\username

Be sure to replace "username" with your computer science username.