Michael Hooker Microscopy Facility (MHMF.ORG)

Mapping a Drive Letter to CF storage space on the School of Medicine Server

Quick Guide:

• Open a "Computer" window with window+E keys, or use and an already open "Computer" window (and press "computer" in the left panel)
• Hit "Map network drive"
• Choose a drive letter
• Enter "\\ad.unc.edu\med\cf" into folder line (or \\som-fs.med.unc.edu\cf )
• Check "Connect using different credentials"
• Enter your-onyen and put "ad\" before your-onyen (i.e. ad\your-onyen)
• Check "remember my credentials" (now not supported by ITS/OIS)

Detailed Guide:

Introduction:

• If:
  • The computer is a member of the AD domain
  • and you have logged in with your Onyen credentials
  • and your account has been added to the "MED_CF Everyone" group (or a specific lab. group, e.g. MED_CF Pickles lab") by OIS
    • Then you will probably have an automatic mapping of:
      • S:  to \\ad.unc.edu\med\cf\shared
      • H:  to \\ad.unc.edu\med\cf\users
      • G:  to \\ad.unc.edu\med\cf\groups
• However if the computer is:
  • not on the AD domain
  • or you log on locally (e.g. .\username)
  • or you have a disk drive, optical drive or USB drive that uses the letters G:, H: or S:,
  • or sometimes the mappings just do not happen (there is the odd quirk in the domain/network system)
    • Then you will have to manually connect to the CF space on the School of Med server
• You can, if you like, map any of the Groups, Users or Shared shares at \\ad.unc.edu\med\cf  to any unused drive letter on your computer.
• The above window shows \\ad.unc.edu\med\cf\shared  mapped to the S: drive letter.  The walk through example below is a little different, but will give you the same effective access to the CF shared resources
• In Windows there is usually multiple ways to achieve the same task, e.g.:
  • Connect using an unc (uniform name convention)
  • Connect using command line instructions in an command prompt  

Detail Instructions:

Open a "Computer" window  or hold down the windows-key and press the letter E  

Or click on "Computer" on an already open "Computer" window

Click on "Map network drive"

Choose a drive letter. e.g. Z:

Enter a resource "Folder" - e.g. \\ad.unc.edu\med\cf

Check "Reconnect at logon" (feature now blocked by ITS/OIS)

Check "Connect using different credentials" (Important!)

Click "Finish"

Note "Domain: BIBBLE" means domain has defaulted to the incorrect BIBBLE domaon and needs to be overridden by AD\ before your Onyen name

Enter your-onyen

Don't forget the domain "ad\" before your your-onyen (note that "Domain: BIBBLE" changes to "Domain: ad")

Enter your Onyen password

Check "Remember my credentials"

You will be able to click & browse into to the shares that you have permissions for

Note this mapping is a little different in that it is to the parent directory of Groups, Shared & Users to a single drive letter (Z: in this example) 

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