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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.

# 1) Install CIFS support
sudo apt-get install -y cifs-utils

# 2) Create the mount point (if it doesn't exist)
sudo mkdir -p /media/T

# 3) Unmount if already mounted (lazy to avoid "busy" errors)
sudo umount -l /media/T 2>/dev/null || true

# 4) Mount with your user/group mapping and permissions. Customize permissions to your need
#    - file_mode=0660  -> files:   rw-rw----
#    - dir_mode=0770   -> folders: rwxrwx---
#    - Replace <your-gatorlink> and <preferred-local-group>
sudo mount -t cifs LINK_FROM_INSTRUCTIONS_ABOVE_WITHOUT_SMB_PART /media/T \
  -o username=<your-gatorlink>,uid=$(id -u),gid=$(getent group <preferred-local-group> | cut -d: -f3),file_mode=XXXX,dir_mode=XXXX

The ,gid=<preferred-local-group> can be left out if no group is needed, but on shared systems (like Serenity) we typically want to include a group so everyone can access the share. The full command, including the LINK_FROM_INSTRUCTIONS_ABOVE_WITHOUT_SMB_PART, is available for weecology folks as a pinned post on the Serenity and HiPerGator Slack channels.