Access from Linux
You will need to know the path to your home directory. Currently the easiest way to determine this is to login to a University or YoYo desktop workstation and look at 'This PC'. Here you will see your U: drive already mapped for you, which will allow you to take note of your own unique path.
In this example you can see the path is
\\stfdata09\home\CS\Cs1ijb
Note in the example above the path includes the slash (\) characters, the text in the brackets and the username of the account, in this case Cs1ijb
This will vary for every person since its private and no two people share the same path
Instructions vary throughout the many varieties of Linux. The steps below work with Ubuntu 18.04, but will be similar for other distributions.
Use Search |
Browse to your storageThe steps below work with the Gnome 3 desktop which comes with many linux distros
smb://stfdata09.shef.ac.uk/home/CS/Cs1ijb
Bookmark your storage
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Use terminal |
Use a mount point on your local filesystem
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
sudo apt-get install keyutils
sudo mkdir /mnt sudo mkdir /mnt/udrive Mount the Personal Storage (Home directory) in the mount point directory created in step 4 by entering the command below, replacing USERNAME with your University username e.g. cs1ijb, and replacing LOCALUSER with your local user account name e.g. fred sudo mount -t cifs //stfdata09.shef.ac.uk/home/CS/Cs1ijb /mnt/udrive -o username=USERNAME,rw,file_mode=0700,dir_mode=0700,uid=LOCALUSER,gid=LOCALUSER Now when you browse into the directory called /mnt/udrive, you will see any shared areas you have access to: cd /mnt/udrive |
If you are following these instructions from off-campus then please remember to connect to the University's VPN service.
Updated February 2020