Storage & Shared Drives

To request R: Drive access:

•  Submit a request for access using the CLA Computing Resources Access Request Form (click “Request Service” in the upper right-hand corner).  Information to include on the request:
  • The name of the file share drive or remote resource (R: Drive OR compute.cla).  Your adviser, lab manager, or supervisor should have this information for you.
  • The name of the person who is the head of the lab, usually a faculty member or a lab manager. This person will need to approve your access.

To request S: Drive access:

• Submit a request for access using the Network Storage Access Request form (click “Request Service” in the upper right-hand corner).  Information to include on the request:
  • The name of the file share drive or remote resource. Your adviser, lab manager, or supervisor should have this information for you.
  • The name of the person who is the head of the lab, usually a faculty member or a lab manager. This person will need to approve your access.

H: Drive:
Some users may have an H drive; OIT encourages the use of Google Drive for individual computing and so we are no longer creating new H drives.

Connect to a Shared Drive or Network Folder

Use the address patterns below for connecting.

• Mac
  • Navigate Finder > Go > Connect to Server:
    • R: Drive for any research fileshare
      • smb://ad.umn.edu/umn/CLA/Research/cla_psyc_<InternetID>_<file_share>
    • S: Drive for the Psychology Administrative fileshare
      • smb://ad.umn.edu/umn/cla-psycstat/administrative/cla-psycstat_administrative/psyc 
    • H: Drive for the Home fileshare
      • smb://ad.umn.edu/umn/CLA-PSYCSTAT/Administrative/cla-psycstat_administrative/home/<account>
         
• PC: The drives R: and S: drives should automatically map when logging in after access is granted. Try restarting the machine.
  • If restarting does not work, you can manually map the drives.
    • R:  \\ad.umn.edu\UMN\CLA\Research
    • S:  \\ad.umn.edu\umn\cla-psycstat\administrative\cla-psycstat_administrative\psyc 
    • H:  \\ad.umn.edu\umn\CLA-PSYCSTAT\administrative\cla-psycstat_administrative\home\<account>
       

Connect to OIT Linux File Share Drives

Additional Notes:

• You must be connected to UMN VPN when attempting to access these folders from off-campus.
   
• Every CLA faculty, staff, and grad students automatically has acces to the "CLA Research by LATIS" virtual desktops (apps.umn.edu). For detailed information see the CLA LATIS webpage.