Accessing Department Fileshare
The primary mountpoint that Faculty and Staff may want to access is the Dept directory. This is a samba mount on fs1.
smb://fs1.cs.wwu.edu/Dept
Note that this mountpoint may be different for alternate distributions of Linux. For example, on the Mint distribution, the mountpoint would look something like smb://CSCI;<your-username>@fs1.cs.wwu.edu/dept/.
Methods for Access
Ultimately you can use whatever tool(s) you prefer. We have provided a couple of examples below but there is no “Support Prescribed” solution.
If you are off-campus, you do not necessarily need to remote into your workstation to access FS1. If you are on the CSCI Faculty/Staff VPN (not the WWU VPN or the CSCI Student VPN), you are able to simply connect to the VPN and access FS1.
Linux - gio
Connect to VPN
Connect to your system
If in a GUI session open a terminal
Issue gio command
Authenticate
Change to directory
Example:
strongbad@linux-03:gio mount smb://fs1.cs.wwu.edu/Dept
Password required for share dept on fs1.cs.wwu.edu
User [strongbad]:
Domain [WORKGROUP]: csci
Password:
strongbad@linux-03:~$ cd /run/user/$(id -u)/gvfs
strongbad@linux-03:/run/user/12345/gvfs$ ls 'smb-share:server=fs1.cs.wwu.edu,share=dept'
strongbad@linux-03:/run/user/12345/gvfs$ cd smb-share\:server\=fs1.cs.wwu.edu\,share\=dept/
strongbad@linux-03:/run/user/12345/gvfs/smb-share:server=fs1.cs.wwu.edu,share=dept$ ls
Linux - GUI
Connect to VPN
Connect to your system
Open your window manager
Select
Other Locationsin the bottom left corner of your window
Enter the mountpoint in the
Connect to Serverbar at the bottom and PressConnect
Select
Registeredradio button, set domain tocsci, and enter CS credentials and pressConnect