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://WWU;<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

  1. Connect to VPN

  2. Connect to your system

  3. If in a GUI session open a terminal

  4. Issue gio command

  5. Authenticate

  6. 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]: wwu
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

  1. Connect to VPN

  2. Connect to your system

  3. Open your window manager

  4. Select Other Locations in the bottom left corner of your window

    01

  5. Enter the mountpoint in the Connect to Server bar at the bottom and Press Connect

    02

  6. Select Registered radio button, set domain to wwu, and enter WWU credentials and press Connect

    03

Windows - GUI

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  1. Connect to VPN

  2. Connect to your system

  3. Open File Explorer

  4. Right-Click on This PC

  5. Select Add a network location

  6. Choose a custom network location

  7. Enter \\fs1.cs.wwu.edu\Dept and select Browse

  8. If prompted, enter your WWU Credentials

  9. Enter a name for the location