GNOME
1. Log on to a School computer or the Remote Desktop via Remote Access|
2. Double-click My Computer
3. Make a note of your H: space server and H: space folder. For example the user called SMITHYGF would enter student2 and s_users respectively.
4. Connect your Linux laptop to the internet
5. Using your Internet browser, connect to the LSE web site at http://www.lse.ac.uk|
6. Click Places | Connect to Server...
7. From the Service type: drop-down menu, select Windows share
8. In the Server: textbox, enter st??.lse.ac.uk (where st?? is the H: space server you made a note of in step 3 above, e.g. student2.lse.ac.uk)
9. In the Share: textbox, enter the H: space folder you made a note of in step 3 above, e.g. s_users
10. In the Folder: textbox, enter your LSE username, e.g. SMITHYGF
11. In the User Name: textbox, enter your LSE username, e.g. SMITHYGF
12. In the Domain Name textbox, enter lse.ac.uk
13. Click Connect
14. Enter your LSE password and click Connect
15. If a message pops up as shown below, click OK
16. Your H: space folder is mounted as ?_users on st??.lse.ac.uk on your desktop.
Open the mounted folder, enter LSE as the domain when prompted and then enter your LSE password
17. Click Connect
18. Select your username from the list that is displayed on the screen and open the folder
19. If you're prompted with a log on box, enter your LSE username preceded by LSE\, e.g. lse\smithygf, enter your password and then click OK
Manual mounting for older systems or command line users:
1. Log on to a School computer or the Remote Desktop via Remote Access|
2. Double-click My Computer
3. Make a note of your H: space server and H: space folder. For example the user called SMITHYGF would enter student2 and s_users respectively.
4. Connect your Linux laptop to the internet
5. Using your Internet browser, connect to the LSE web site at http://www.lse.ac.uk|
6. Make a note of the username you used to log on to Linux
7. You will need to edit the Samba configuration file /etc/samba/smb.conf. Use your favourite super-user editor (e.g gedit, kwrite) to open the file smb.conf, and change the Workgroup setting to LSE
8. Open the Terminal program
9. At the Terminal prompt type the following commands one after the other:
mkdir /mnt/hspace (press Enter)
su (press Enter, and type your L inux administrative password at the password prompt.)
mount -t smbfs -o username=yourLSEusername //st??.lse.ac.uk/?_users /mnt/hspace
(where yourLSEusername is your LSE username, st? is the server you made a note of in step 3 above and ?_users is your H: space folder. Note: there is a space before /mnt/hspace).
Press Enter and type your LSE password at the prompt, then press Enter again
10. If you get any error messages it is probably because the smbfs package is missing, you will need to install it using your software package manager or via the command line, as follows:
RHEL-based systems: yum install smbfs
Debian-based systems: apt-get install smbfs
11. Exit from the super-user prompt by typing exit, then press Enter
12. List the contents of your H: space by entering the command
ls /mnt/hspace/yourLSEusername
(e.g. ls /mnt/hspace/smithygf)
13. You can also use your favourite file browser package to view the contents of /mnt/hspace/yourLSEusername (your H: space)
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Reviewed March 2015