Mounting a Volume to your Desktop

If you are on campus, or logged into UVM's VPN client from anywhere AND on a fast network connection, you can mount a network drive to your Active Directory storage space. Here's how:

CAMPUS Active Directory

To connect to your personal CAMPUS active directory space (available to faculty and staff ONLY), do the following:

1. Select Connect to Server... from the Go menu in the OS X Finder. The following window will open:
   
2. In the Server Address field enter:
   cifs://files/netid
   replacing "netID" with your own full UVM netID (example: jblow would type cifs://files/jblow). If you are unsure as to what your UVM netID is look yourself up on the UVM Online Directory. Your UVM netID is listed at the bottom of your contact information.
   
3. Then click Connect. You will see a login window asking for your User Name and Password:
   
   Make sure that you change "Workgroup or Domain" to be "CAMPUS", then enter your UVM netID and password and click OK.
4. If you've done everything correctly you should see an icon appear on the Desktop matching your UVM netID name and a window will open showing you the contents of your personal directory on the CAMPUS Active Directory server:
   

CAMPUS Active Directory, Departmental Shared Directory

1. If you want to connect to your department's shared directory, select Connect to Server... from the Go menu in the OS X Finder. The following window will open:
   
2. In the Server Address field enter:
   cifs://files/shared/
3. Click Connect and a login window will open:
   
   Make sure that you change "Workgroup or Domain" to be "CAMPUS", then enter your UVM netID and password and click OK.
4. If you've done everything correctly you should see an icon appear on the Desktop called SHARED and a window will open showing you the contents of the shared directory:
   
   Locate and double click on your department's shared directory to open it.
   

You may then copy files to and from the mounted volume as if it was a floppy disk or any other network volume.