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H Drive (Personal Network Drive)

Personal Drives are roaming drives on network. 杏吧论坛 employees home directories are allocated 5 GB of storage. Student home directories (H: drive) are allocated 3 GB of storage.

H Drive (Personal Network Drive)

From the start Menu, right-click听Computer听and select 鈥Map Network Drive

Faculty/Staff

  • Select drive H: then type in 鈥淧ath鈥 or 鈥淔older鈥澨\\kermit.campus.jcu.edu\home$\username

Students

  • Select drive H: then type in 鈥淧ath鈥 or 鈥淔older鈥澨\\kermit.campus.jcu.edu\shome$\username
  • Select drive W: then type in 鈥淧ath鈥 or 鈥淔older鈥澨\\stuweb08\username$

Check box that says 鈥淩econnect at Logon.鈥滻f a pop-up screen appears asking for a username and password, enter: Active Directory Credentials (Same as Canvas)

Mapped drives should then appear in 鈥淢y Computer鈥 window.

  • From the Mac OS X Finder, hit Command+K to bring up the 鈥Connect to Server鈥 window or click Go on finder and select 'Connect to Server'

Faculty/Staff

  • Enter the path to the network drive you want to map, ie:听smb://kermit.campus.jcu.edu/home$/username

Students

  • Enter the path to the network drive you want to map, ie:听smb://kermit.campus.jcu.edu/shome$/username

  • Enter your login/password and click 鈥淥K鈥 to mount the network drive
  • The drive will now appear on your desktop and in the Finder window sidebar

O Drive (Dept. Network Drive)

Shared Departmental drives have data storage capacity of 20 GB.

O Drive (Dept. Network Drive)

Do you need access to the O drive (the shared drive for your department)? If so follow these instructions:

  • Click on the听Windows logo听in the bottom left hand corner of the screen.
  • Search 鈥This PC鈥 or听Press 鈥Win + E鈥 on your keyboard.
  • When the computer window shows up, click on 鈥Map network drive鈥 button at the middle top part of the window (another window will pop up).
  • Change the 鈥drive鈥 dropdown to听O:听(you can choose any letter though).
  • Next to 鈥淔older:鈥 type in the following:\\kermit.campus.jcu.edu\dept$
  • If you want to be able to connect using different credentials then you logged in with, check the appropriate check box at the bottom of the window.
  • Click the finish button and then a window will then pop up with a list of department (select the department that applies to you).
  • If you selected to use different credentials in one of the earlier steps, type in those credentials now (if not, ignore this step).
  • From the Mac OS X Finder, hit Command+K to bring up the 鈥Connect to Server鈥 window or click Go on finder and select 'Connect to Server'
  • Enter the path to the network drive you want to map, ie:听smb://kermit.campus.jcu.edu/dept$/department
  • Enter your login/password and click 鈥淥K鈥 to mount the network drive
  • The drive will now appear on your desktop and in the Finder window sidebar

Faculty and students get access to Google Drive with unlimited data storage space. It can be accessed from multiple devices with a single google account.

To download Drive File Stream:

  1. On your computer, open:
    • DriveFileStream.exe听on Windows
    • DriveFileStream.dmg听on Mac
  2. Follow the on-screen instructions.

You can find Drive File Stream Menu听听in a different place, depending on what computer you use:

  • Windows:听At the bottom right of your screen.
  • Mac:听At the top right of your screen.

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