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Remotely Mounting DIVMS file space from a Self-managed Machine

Note-This is only available to linux clients on the University Network. This can not be done from a home machine or from off campus networks unless a VPN connection is established first. There is no support for users connecting from off campus! For VPN details, see Configuring AnyConnect Client for details.

1. Login to your Linux machine as root

2. Make a temporary directory to hold the mount point

mkdir /var/tmp/mount_point

3. Mount the Mathematical Sciences network. You'll be prompted for your Mathematical Sciences passphrase.

Faculty and Staff home accounts live on //netapp1.divms.uiowa.edu/

Students home accounts live on //netapp2.divms.uiowa.edu/

Faculty/staff user this:

mount -t cifs -o username=username,workgroup=DIVMS //netapp1.divms.uiowa.edu/username /var/tmp/mount_point

Students user this:

mount -t cifs -o username=username,workgroup=DIVMS //netapp2.divms.uiowa.edu/username /var/tmp/mount_point

where username is your DIVMS username.

On older systems, you'll need to replace cifs with smbfs

Other DIVMS Samba shares are as follows:
//webedit.divms.uiowa.edu/homepage (access your html home page files)
//netapp1.divms.uiowa.edu/class (access to Class Project files in /group/class)
//netapp1.divms.uiowa.edu/ftp (access the anonymous ftp directory in /group/ftp/pub files)
//netapp1.divms.uiowa.edu/incoming (access the anonymous FTP incoming directory in /group/ftp.incoming)
//netapp1.divms.uiowa.edu/cssec (access CS Staff files)
//netapp1.divms.uiowa.edu/mathstaff (access your Math Staff files)
//netapp1.divms.uiowa.edu/statsec (access your Stat Staff files)
//netapp1.divms.uiowa.edu/hank (access your hank files)
//netapp1.divms.uiowa.edu/hankexp (access your hankexp files)
//netapp1.divms.uiowa.edu/yoyo (access your files in /group/yoyo)

4. When you're done, make sure you umount the /var/tmp/mount_point directory to unmount the smbmount point. For additional help see: man mount and man smbmount or man mount.cifs

umount /var/tmp/mount_point

Notes: We do not recommend making this mount permanent as it requires storing your DIVMS passphrase in plain text on your system (either in the /etc/fstab file or another one). If your machine is compromised, the attacker will have access to your DIVMS account and everything you can access (files/email/etc).