You can access your H: drive 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
You can also use webfolders to access Institute folders and Research folders (more commonly known as the Z: drive). We have a different set of instructions here<\/a>\u00a0explaining how to access those areas.<\/p>\n __________________________________________<\/p>\n Accessing your H: drive \/ home folder<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *** Windows 7 \/ XP<\/strong><\/p>\n Users should follow the instructions provided by ISS<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/filestore\/remoteaccess\/webfolders\/<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *** Apple Mac OS X<\/strong><\/p>\n Finding your Home Folder \/ Webfolders path<\/p>\n Open the Newcastle university home page:\u00a0http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk Click on your desktop area Go (menu bar) You should end up with something that resembles 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 Follow the first part of the Apple Mac instructions, with regards to finding your Home Folder\/Webfolder path<\/p>\n Places (menu bar) username = your ISS login 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 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. You can also use webfolders […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","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\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/a>Click People search
\nClick My Details
\nIf prompted, authenticate using your campus ID and password.
\nClick the link for \u201cISS technical information, including details of which ISS servers you use and any role accounts you own.\u201d
\nEither make a note or right-click on the link next to “Home folder via WebFolders” and choose “Copy link” from the menu
\nClose your web browser<\/p>\n
\nFinder (menu bar)
\nPreferences
\nEnsure that “Connected Servers” box is ticked
\nClose the window<\/p>\n
\nConnect to Server…
\nCarefully enter the address you noted earlier or delete whatever address is currently in the Server Address box. Right-click and choose “Paste” from the menu<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/webfolders.ncl.ac.uk\/home\/homeXX\/n123example<\/p>\n
\nEnter your ISS login and password
\nTick “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 = \/home\/homeXX\/n123example
\n(replace homeXX, which can be found in the webfolder address you noted earlier, and n123example should be altered to reflect your ISS login<\/p>\n
\nName to use for connection = something useful eg h drive
\nClick Connect button
\nEnter your ISS password. Tick “remember my password for this session”
\nClick Connect button
\nClick “Allow Once” button<\/p>\n