Students, faculty, and staff members are provided with personal storage space, the N: drive, on a central server, which is regularly backed up by Information Systems & Technology (IST). The N: drive can be accessed on a Mac and Windows computer.
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Note: If you are trying to connect using your computer from off-campus, connect to the virtual private network (VPN) first before proceeding with the instructions below. |
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- Open File Explorer and select This PC.
- Click the Map network drive button in the ribbon menu at the top, then select "Map network drive."
- Select the drive letter N: and type in the text as shown in Folder:
- For ENV staff, faculty and graduate students, enter:
\\fileu.nexus.uwaterloo.ca\users$\username (replace "username" with your Nexus username) - For ENV undergraduate students, enter:
\\files.nexus.uwaterloo.ca\students$\username (replace "username" with your Nexus username) - If you are not in ENV, then follow the instructions from your faculty for mapping your N: drive.
- For ENV staff, faculty and graduate students, enter:
- Make sure to check the Reconnect at sign-in and Connect using different credentials boxes as per above. Click Finish.
- On the pop-up, choose the More choices option.
- Choose Use a different account and the enter your credentials (for the username, be sure to add "nexus\" followed by your WatIAM username) as per below and click OK.
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To connect to the staff/faculty departmental storage space, refer to the instructions on connecting to the N: drive but use the following server address:
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