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.

For confidential, restricted, or highly restricted files, consult IST's guidelines for secure data exchange. Learn about privacy and compliance considerations.

Step-by-step guide

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."
   
3. Select the drive letter N: and type in the text as shown in Folder:
   
   
   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.
   
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.