There are two different locations available to most UVM employees in which to store files: your Zoo space and the CAMPUS Active Directory domain.
Everyone at UVM is assigned a UVM netID. This netID is used as your email account, authenticates you as a UVM affiliate for many databases and applications you'll use every day (Peoplesoft, Oracle Calendar, etc.) In addition your UVM netID gives you access to a directory under the same name on the Zoo file server system.
Zoo filespace is essentially unlimited, there are no quotas enforced. However, this is a cooperative environment so we ask that everyone be respectful of others and only use this disk space for UVM-related storage needs.
The Zoo filespace is also where you can set up your own personal website. Information on this can be found in the UVM webguide.
Active Directory is a networking structure based on Microsoft's Windows Server platform. Every UVM employee has access to 3 gigabytes of personal space on the Active Directory servers to store personal documents. Since this isn't a very large quota, we again ask that people store only important documents and not music, video or digital images.
Active Directory (AD) has the advantage of being built into Windows and therefore using AD can appear seamless if your computer is joined to the domain. In the College of Arts and Sciences, we generally do not join MacOS machines to Active Directory directly. This is because the Active Directory plug in built into MacOS X is still a work in progress and we've found that joining MacOS to AD usually does not work as intended.
HOWEVER, this does NOT mean that MacOS machines cannot access AD nor that they cannot participate in activities based on AD. The links on the left outline several different methods by which MacOS machines can still access Active Directory.
In addition to your personal storage space, CAMPUS supports shared directories. These usually correspond to a particular department and are intended as storage spaces for departmental archives, documents needed by many within a given department, or documents intended to be worked on in a collaborative way. Shared directories have a much larger disk space quota which varies depending on departmental need.
For more information on CAMPUS Active Directory, please visit their sharepoint website.
On the left are instructions for methods of connecting to the storage spaces outlined above using various tools. They are intended to give you access to your files no matter where you are and no matter whose computer you're on.
Last modified April 14 2009 03:33 PM
