Windows Z Drive

The ODU CS Department provides its users limited storage space called Z-drive.Users will need to go to 'Computer' via Windows Start menu on our lab machines or VCLAB Then users will see the layout similar to what is shown in the Picture 1:

Users have different storage limits based on their groups and academic levels. Undergraduate students have a quota of 10GB per student. Graduate students have 15GB of space. Z-drive will contain all of users Unix home directory files since it is a map of home their directory via Samba. It is backed up and all users are strongly encouraged to save their important data in their Z-drives.

When Z-drive is not visible:

• Contact root@cs.odu.edu since the solution below fixes it temporarily
• Please click on 'Map Network Drive' as shown in the Picture 2 below:
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• A new window should pop up as shown in the Picture 3 below:
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• Choose the Drive letter as 'Z'
• In the 'Folder' field, type one of the following (replace your_cs_account_username with the username of your CS account:
  • For Undergraduate Students: \\cifs-dgs.cs.odu.edu\undergrad\your_cs_account_username\
  • For Graduate Students: \\cifs-ecs.cs.odu.edu\grad\your_cs_account_username\
  • For Computer Science Faculty: \\cifs-ecs.cs.odu.edu\faculty\your_cs_account_username\
  • For CS Department Staff: \\cifs-ecs.cs.odu.edu\staff\your_cs_account_username\
• Click 'Finish'. After you enter the above information, new window will pop up asking for username and password. Please use your Windows account username and password for that. After you enter your login credentials, you should see your Z-drive mapped now.

If you still experience issues, please email root@cs.odu.edu for help.

Accessing your Z drive from the computer labs requires you follow the same procedure.