Mounting your home directory securely

Mounting your home directory securely
You must be on the CS Network or on CS VPN.

To mount your CRF home directory from a Windows or Linux workstation (that is not CRF maintained), please follow these steps. (This will only work from within the CS network.)

Linux

1. Do you have a WIN-CS account?
If not, get a WIN-CS account. Most faculty, PhD, and academic staff should already have an account. If you don’t have a WIN-CS account, please contact CRF to get a WIN-CS account.

2. As root from your Linux workstation, you can mount your CRF home directory using mount –t smbfs:

3. For faculty, the command would be something like:

mount –t smbfs –o username=WIN-CS\\bob //crystal.cs.columbia.edu/bob /mnt

For academic staff, research, and guest users, type:

mount –t smbfs –o username=WIN-CS\\jane //quartz.cs.columbia.edu/jane /mnt

For students and visitors, type:

mount –t smbfs –o username=WIN-CS\\joe //vespene.cs.columbia.edu/joe /mnt

Windows

If your Windows XP workstation is part of the WIN-CS domain, your Z: drive should already have your home directory mounted, and you can continue using the Z: drive to access the files in your home directory.

To determine if your Windows XP machine is part of the WIN-CS domain:

1. Click on “Start”

2. Right-Click on “My Computer”

3. Click on “Properties”

(The “System Properties” window should appear)

4. Click on “Computer Name” tab

5. If you see: “Domain win.cs.columbia.edu”, then the PC is part of the win-cs domain

If your computer is not part of the WIN-CS domain, then follow these steps to mount your home directory securely.

1. Do you have a WIN-CS account?
Get a WIN-CS account. Most faculty, PhD, and academic staff should already have an account. If you can’t mount your home directory, please contact CRF to get a WIN-CS account.

2. Click on “Start”

3. Click on “Run”

4. For faculty, type:

Type: \\crystal.cs.columbia.edu\username (where “username” is your account username, like thomas or akt2034)

4. For academic staff, research, and guest users, type:

Type: \\quartz.cs.columbia.edu\username (where “username” is your account username, like thomas or akt2034)

For students and visitors, type:

Type: \\vespene.cs.columbia.edu\username (where “username” is your account username, like thomas or akt2034)

5. You should see a new window prompting for your username and password.

Type in username as: WIN-CS\username

Type in your WIN-CS password

6. You should now see a new window pop-up with your home directory.

7. If you have any problems with mounting your home directory, please contact CRF.

Mac

Using command line,

1. Create Mount point.

e.g. mkdir /mount

2. Mount home directory

syntax for PhD:

mount -t smbfs //username@vespene.cs.columbia.edu/username /mnt

e.g. mount -t smbfs //thomas@vespene.cs.columbia.edu/thomas /mnt

Using GUI,

1. Click on the finder.

2. Hit Apple+K to connect to server and type in the following address:

for PhD:

smb://username@vespene.cs.columbia.edu/username

e.g. smb://thomas@vespene.cs.columbia.edu/thomas