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Samba

Samba is used on campus to mount your home directory as a network drive. You can then drag/drop files in Windows.

Connecting with Windows

  1. Double-click desktop icon “My Computer”
  2. Tools → Map Network Drive…
  3. Folder: \\samba\homes
  4. When prompted, enter your username/password

Connecting with Linux

  1. Use su - or sudo -s to switch to the root user.
  2. Create a directory to use as a mount point, such as /mnt/aerohome
  3. Execute mount -t smbfs //samba.aero.und.edu/ldapuser -o username=ldapuser,uid=localuser,gid=localgroup
    • You will be prompted for a password. This is your usual aerospace account password.
    • ldapuser in the above should be your usual Aerospace username.
    • localuser should be a user account on the samba client machine. This user will appear to own all of the files in the samba share.
    • localgroup should be a group on the samba client machine. This group will appear to have group ownership of all files in the samba share.

Troubleshooting