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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Below are instructions on how to access the Z: drive\/Institute folders\/Research folders. We have separate \u00a0instructions available here<\/a>\u00a0on how to access your H: drive using webfolders.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n __________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *** Windows 7<\/strong><\/p>\n Click the Windows icon, on the task bar https<\/span>:\/\/webfolders.ncl.ac.uk\/igm<\/p>\n Click Next button campus\\n123example<\/p>\n It is important that you precede your login with campus\\<\/p>\n Enter your ISS login and tick the “Remember my credentials” box 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *** Windows XP<\/strong><\/p>\n Click the Start button, on the task bar Enter the address:<\/p>\n https<\/span>:\/\/webfolders.ncl.ac.uk\/igm<\/p>\n Click Next button campus\\n123example<\/p>\n It is important that you precede your login with campus\\<\/p>\n Enter your ISS login and tick the “Remember my password” box <\/p>\n *** Apple Mac OS X<\/strong><\/p>\n Click on your desktop area Go (menu bar) https<\/span>:\/\/webfolders.ncl.ac.uk\/igm<\/p>\n Click Connect button <\/p>\n *** Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n This has only been tested on our officially supported Linux distributions – Red Hat\/CentOS\/Scientific Linux\/Fedora. We will test other distributions later.<\/p>\n Places (menu bar) 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,6,15,14,13,16],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-filestore","tag-h-drive","tag-institute-folder","tag-research-data","tag-webfolders","tag-z-drive","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nClick Computer
\nClick “Map network drive”
\nClick the link “Connect to a Web site that you can use to store your documents…”
\nClick Next button
\nClick Next button
\nEnter the address:<\/p>\n
\nWhen prompted, enter your ISS login using this format:<\/p>\n
\nClick OK button
\nEnter a name for this folder. For example, IGM Z DRIVE
\nClick Next button
\nClick Finish button<\/p>\n
\nClick My Computer
\nClick Tools (menu bar)
\nClick “Map Network Drive…”
\nClick the link “Sign up for online storage or connect to…”
\nClick Next button
\nClick Next button<\/p>\n
\nWhen prompted, enter your ISS login using this format:<\/p>\n
\nClick OK button
\nEnter a name for this folder. For example, IGM Z DRIVE
\nClick Next button
\nClick Finish button<\/p>\n
\nFinder (menu bar)
\nPreferences
\nEnsure that “Connected Servers” box is ticked
\nClose the window<\/p>\n
\nConnect to Server…
\nCarefully enter this address:<\/p>\n
\nEnter your ISS login and password
\nTick the box next to “Remember this password in my keychain”
\nClick Connect button<\/p>\n
\nConnect to Server…
\nService type = Secure WebDAV (HTTPS)
\nServer = webfolders.ncl.ac.uk
\nfolder = igm
\nuser name = your ISS login
\nName to use for connection = can be anything e.g “igm z drive”
\nClick Connect button
\nEnter your password. Tick “remember password for this session” box
\nClick Connect button
\nIf prompted, choose “Allow once” when asked about “allow application access to keyring?”<\/p>\n