Weecology's Wiki
Computing
Accessing the T-drive

Accessing the T-drive

  • If off campus, turn on the virtual private network (VPN) before connecting using the instructions here: https://vpn.ufl.edu/
  • Follow the instructions for: 1) Windows or 2) macOS
  • On Linux use the same basic approach described in the Windows/macOS instructions, but enter UFAD for the WORKGROUP
  • Lab materials are in the lab-white-ernest folder
  • Our public file serving folder is Weecology

Linux

Assuming you’re running Ubuntu. Install the cifs-utils package, create a folder called /media/T for a mount point, then run the mount command, replacing <your-gatorlink> with your UF gatorlink (the part of your UF email address before the @ and <your-local-username> with your username on the Linux machine you are performing the mount from; you can check this with whoami). If you haven’t run sudo recently you will be prompted for your local password. You will (then) be prompted for UF your password.

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
sudo mkdir /media/T
sudo mount -t cifs LINK_FROM_INSTRUCTIONS_ABOVE_WITHOUT_SMB_PART /media/T/ -o username=<your-gatorlink>,uid=<your-local-username>

The full command, including the LINK_FROM_INSTRUCTIONS_ABOVE_WITHOUT_SMB_PART, is available for weecology folks as a pinned post on the Hipergator Slack channel.