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For all CCB staff and others, Windows and Mac file sharing. Includes using Cornell's DFS service.

Overview

Using the Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) convention to mount file shares makes things easier. Advantages include:

  • Your mapping can still work even when the provisioning service underneath changes completely.
  • 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 look 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\>.
  • 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 computer.

Mac and Linux

smb://files.cornell.edu/as/chm/... wherever you have permission 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?
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