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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.

You should use this for storing all your important files as it is more secure than storing it on your computer's hard drive.

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1. Open File Explorer and select This PC.
2. Click the Map network drive button in the ribbon menu at the top, then select "Map network drive."
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3. Select the drive letter N: and type in the text as shown in Folder:
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   1. For ENV staff, faculty and graduate students, enter:
      \\fileu.nexus.uwaterloo.ca\users$\username (replace "username" with your Nexus username)
   2. For ENV undergraduate students, enter:
      \\files.nexus.uwaterloo.ca\students$\username (replace "username" with your Nexus username)
   3. If you are not in ENV, then follow the instructions from your faculty for mapping your N: drive.
4. Make sure to check the Reconnect at sign-in and Connect using different credentials boxes as per above. Click Finish. 
5. On the pop-up, choose the More choices option.
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6. 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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