Michael Hooker Microscopy Facility (MHMF.ORG)

Connecting to a Shared Directory on a server such as \\Minsky or \\ad.unmc.edu\med\cf from an office/lab/equipment/home desktop Windows computer

Go to quick guide: Connecting to \\minsky\slaney  or  Connecting to CF Shared/groups/users

Introduction

• This section describes mapping a drive letter to a shared directory on MHmicroscopy domain server computers for Windows users:
  • With "mhmicroscopy" domain account.   mhmicroscopy domain accounts grant access to e.g.:
    •  \\minsky.med.unc.edu\slaney   a.k.a. "slaney"
    • \\minsky.med.unc.edu\cf-center
    • \\minsky.med.unc.edu\alcohol-studies
    • \\minsky.med.unc.edu\lestweforget
    • \\minsky.med.unc.edu\lemon-lab
    • \\minsky.med.unc.edu\vilar-lab
  • Physically connected to the UNC Chapel Hill campus with an Ethernet jack or on campus WiFi (eduroam)
  • Or from off campus with, in addition to "mhmicroscopy" account:
    • an Onyen account
    • UNC VPN installed
    • DUO 2 factor phone app
  • It is assumed that connections will be made from a PC running Windows/7/8/10 with Windows TCP/IP networking properly setup.  (Windows95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista are not supported in order to comply with SOM & HIPAA security requirements.)
• Please note that direct connection to MHmicroscopy lab. workstations is not possible after March 2015 due to the SOM firewall and ITS/OIS policy
• Mac System X computers can access shares on \\minsky.med.unc.edu.  Access is granted using your MHmicroscopy log in account. From off campus UNC VPN and an Onyen account and DUO are also required.  Remember passwords must be 10 or more characters long. 
• Note: The backslash "\" is different from the forward slash "/".  / and \ cannot be used interchangeably.  
• Note: This process can be use to map drive letter to division server shares on the AD domain, e.g. drive S: for "shares"

What Can Be Accessed

• Central file server called \\minsky.med.unc.edu  or  \\152.19.10.204  or  \\minsky (if you are on campus and the computer network connection is suitably setup).   Also the School of Medicine file server shares such as \\som-fs.med.unc.edu\cf a.k.a. \\ad.unc.edu\med\cf  or \\ad.unc.edu\med\cf\shared  \\ad.unc.edu\med\bcas can be connected to with Onyen credentials.

What Can Not Be Accessed

• Shares on lab. workstation computers such as \\hamilton  \\laplace  \\hooke with shares that were of the kind \\laplace\users2  \\schott\users  can not be accessed directly due to firewall restrictions introduced in 2015.

From Off Campus access requires UNC_VPN to be installed and an Onyen account and the DUO 2 factor phone app

• Installing and using Cisco UNC VPN on your laptop or home computer
• Installing the DUO 2 factor application

Connecting:

• If you are off campus: Run and log into Cisco VPN for UNC 
• As a drive letter e.g. 
• Alternatively connect as an unc (uniform naming convention) is possible but not recommended - also allows to browse shared resources. Proceed below:

• Open a "Computer" window  or hold down the windows-key and press the letter E  

• 

• Type in \\152.19.10.204  or  \\minsky  or  \\minsky.med.unc.edu  in the address bar which has the word "Computer" in it
• You should be promoted for a user name and password
• 
• Type in your user name preceded by mhmicroscopy\  e.g. mhmicroscopy\michelle and your password and check/enable the square labeled "Remember my credentials"
• Your should then see the shares on \\minsky listed
• 
• Click on the shared resource you wish to use

Optionally link share to a drive letter:

• To map a share as a drive letter:
  • Right click on the share, e.g. slaney
  • Choose a drive letter to map the share to a drive letter
  • Choose "connect using different credentials"
  • Provide mhmicroscopy\account and password (if connecting to \\minsky resources)

• Using the command prompt

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