Network Shares  

MS Windows

There are numerous methods of accessing a network share under MS Windows operating systems. What you need to know in all cases, however, is the full path to the folder. This is composed of the name of the server and the name of the share. The following information is for NAU Windows machines plugged into NAU's network. The Notes section contains additional information if you are using a non-NAU machine or an NAU machine not plugged into NAU's network.

  1. Whether mapping the share to a drive letter or simply accessing it via Windows Explorer, the full path to the folder is of the form:
      \\"server name"\"share name"
  2. Forestry home drives are on a server named for users and your share name is your user ID followed by a dollar sign. e.g.,
      \\forusers\abc6$
    where the user ID is abc6
  3. If you are accessing what we call a project share, the full path to the folder should have been emailed to you.

Notes:   

If you are accessing the share from a non-NAU machine or an NAU machine not plugged into NAU's network, you will first need to configure your computer with NAU VPN and connect to it. You may also need to:

  1. Enter the full host name as the server in the full path to the folder (e.g., forusers.for.nau.edu)
  2. Connect using a different user name. If this is the case, enter your complete NAU user name (e.g., nau\abc6 or nau-students\abc6) and password.

MAC OS X

Sharenames are similar but must be preceded with "Smb:" and the slashes are forward slashes. For example, in the "Go | Connect to Server..." menu, enter Smb://forusers.for.nau.edu/abc6$.

You will mostly likely need to enter your NAU/NAU-Student domain account information as above for authentication.