Small groups working together on a project find it advantageous to have a shared network disk on a central server. For some folks, a departmental fileserver may not be available. A departmental account on Homer can be setup by C&C Information to provide such a network disk.
Once an account on Homer has been setup, its home directory may me mounted as a network disk. The DNS name of the SMB server which will provide the network disk is simba01.u.washington.edu. Instructions for mounting the network disk are available for W95, NT and Linux operating systems below.
For W95, the network software must be first configured to use a WINS server.
Mapping a network disk may be done within
Windows Explorer. Under the tools menu
select map network drive and enter the UNC name for the
directory: \\simba01\jqpublic
For MS DOS, the command to mount the disk is net use,
and the command net help use | more shows
the command options. For example:
net use * \\simba01\jqpublic
The MS DOS command form is suitable for a batch file. You may then add a shortcut to the batchfile on your desktop for easy execution.
Mapping a network disk may be done within Windows NT Explorer.
Under the tools menu select map network drive and enter
the UNC name for the directory: \\simba01.u.washington.edu\jqpublic
and the jqpublic or your homer username.
For the Linux commands given below, the login name for the departmental account for user and the directory name onto which the filesytem is to be mounted for mount-point.
For the Linux 2.1.x series, the commands to mount and dismount are:
% smbclient '\\simba01.u.washington.edu\login' -c 'mount mount-point -f 644'For the Linux 2.0.x series, the commands to mount and dismount are:
% smbmount '\\simba01.u.washington.edu\user' mount-point -f 644