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For all CCB staff and others, Windows and Mac file sharing. Includes using Cornell's DFS service. |
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Overview
Using the Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) convention to mount file shares means that makes things easier. Advantages include:
- Your mapping can still work even when the provisioning service underneath changes completely
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- The DFS convention is easier to remember than the fully qualified names.A fully qualified name may look something like, <as-chm-serv_2.ad.cornell.edu>.
- DFS leverages AD groups, making permissions easier to understand for users, and more efficient to support and maintain.
- Mount points can be on a wide variety of services on campus, including services provisioned by CRCF, A&S, and CIT.
Cornell's Active Directory domain supports DFS, which is available to Windows, Macs, and Linux computers. Below are examples of how you can use the Cornell implementation as a member of the Chemistry department.
Research group with file server services have group accounts with easy-to-remember mount-point names:
- Abruna, Dichtel, Freed (2 names coming), Lin.
- Example: \\files.cornell.edu\as\chm\abruna mounts the Abruna Group's file share.
Windows
\\files.cornell.edu\as\chm\... wherever you have permission to golook and/ or write to.
CCB staff using Windows have the following auto-mapped:
- Staff file shares. R:
is mapped to <\\files.cornell.edu\as\chm\
Research group files are called:
- >.
- From R:
, you can browser department file shares you are authorized to either just see or see and write to.
This service will not work with:
- Non-CU AD computers, such as a student's personal computerLin, Abruna, Dichtel, Freed (2 names coming).
Mac and Linux
smb://files.cornell.edu/as/chm/... wherever you have permission to go.
Detailed
Windows
Select available drive letter.
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to look and/ or write to.
All staff Macs are on CU AD, as are many Research Macs.
This service will not work with:
- Non-CU AD computers, such as a student's personal computer.
- Mac OS X 10.6 or older.
- Q: Read-only for NTFS shares?