Mapping Network Drives

Off-campus

If you are off-campus and require to connect to your network drive, you will need to make sure you have a VPN connection setup. Please refer to the steps above.

Once you've set up the VPN connection, follow the steps below.

On-campus

1. Windows 10

Click the Start button, and search for This PC

Click the Computer tab on the top, followed by the Map network drive (as shown below)
In the Drive list, pick the letter you would like for your network drive
In the Folder box, type \\smb-files.cs.uwaterloo.ca\userID , replace the "userID" field with your own userID
Select the Reconnect at sign-in and Connect using different credentials boxes
Click Finish
You will be prompted to enter a username and password. For the username, enter it as GENERAL\userID with the same password you use to login to your machine. If you're unable to login, please contact CSCF help desk

2. Mac OSX

Press Command+K on your Mac keyboard, or, Finder > Go > Connect to Server
Enter the following address:
smb://smb-files.cs.uwaterloo.ca/userID
where the userID should be replaced with your corresponding userID
You will be prompted to enter your username and password. Select "Registered User" option and enter your username as:
GENERAL\userID
with the same password used to login to your machine. If you are unable to login, please contact the CSCF help desk.