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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!

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 password.

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 password 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).