You can access your H: drive, the Institute folders and research folders via something called “webfolders”. This works on any Internet capable Windows/Mac/Linux computer, both on and off campus.
Webfolders are a useful alternative to RAS, and they allow non University Common Desktop PCs access to your H: drive and Z: drive, regardless of your location.
Below are instructions on how to access the Z: drive/Institute folders/Research folders. We have separate instructions available here on how to access your H: drive using webfolders.
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*** Windows 7
Click the Windows icon, on the task bar
Click Computer
Click “Map network drive”
Click the link “Connect to a Web site that you can use to store your documents…”
Click Next button
Click Next button
Enter the address:
https://webfolders.ncl.ac.uk/igm
Click Next button
When prompted, enter your ISS login using this format:
campus\n123example
It is important that you precede your login with campus\
Enter your ISS login and tick the “Remember my credentials” box
Click OK button
Enter a name for this folder. For example, IGM Z DRIVE
Click Next button
Click Finish button
This adds the webfolder to your computer. It behaves like the Z: drive on a IGM University Common Desktop computer, though there are some subtle differences.
*** Windows XP
Click the Start button, on the task bar
Click My Computer
Click Tools (menu bar)
Click “Map Network Drive…”
Click the link “Sign up for online storage or connect to…”
Click Next button
Click Next button
Enter the address:
https://webfolders.ncl.ac.uk/igm
Click Next button
When prompted, enter your ISS login using this format:
campus\n123example
It is important that you precede your login with campus\
Enter your ISS login and tick the “Remember my password” box
Click OK button
Enter a name for this folder. For example, IGM Z DRIVE
Click Next button
Click Finish button
*** Apple Mac OS X
Click on your desktop area
Finder (menu bar)
Preferences
Ensure that “Connected Servers” box is ticked
Close the window
Go (menu bar)
Connect to Server…
Carefully enter this address:
https://webfolders.ncl.ac.uk/igm
Click Connect button
Enter your ISS login and password
Tick the box next to “Remember this password in my keychain”
Click Connect button
*** Linux
This has only been tested on our officially supported Linux distributions – Red Hat/CentOS/Scientific Linux/Fedora. We will test other distributions later.
Places (menu bar)
Connect to Server…
Service type = Secure WebDAV (HTTPS)
Server = webfolders.ncl.ac.uk
folder = igm
user name = your ISS login
Name to use for connection = can be anything e.g “igm z drive”
Click Connect button
Enter your password. Tick “remember password for this session” box
Click Connect button
If prompted, choose “Allow once” when asked about “allow application access to keyring?”
When finished, remember to unmount your webfolder. Right-click over the web folder icon, sitting on the Desktop, and choose “Unmount Volume” from the menu.