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Accessing the SMB - files.student.cs

Accessing the SMB - files.student.cs

Owned by Mari Hassanzada
Last updated: Nov 29, 2024
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  1. For Windows Users

  2. For Mac Users


For Windows Users

  • If you're not on UW campus, you have to first connect to the campus network using the UW Cisco AnyConnect VPN (download the VPN client).

  • Open File Explorer. Right-click This PC. Choose Map network drive...

  • For the Folder, enter
    \\smb-files.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca\userid where userid is you Quest userID.

    Check Connect using different credentials and click Finish.

     

  • Click More choices and Use a different account.
    For the username, enter TEACHING\userid where userid is your Quest ID, up to 8 characters. The password is the same password you use to logon to the Macs in MC 3rd floor. You can reset your password if you don't know it.

For Mac Users

Samba lets you mount the course account as a drive/folder so that you can work with the course's files in a Finder window.

Step 1: Click on the desktop or the Finder icon in the Dock (bar at the bottom of the screen). Then in the Finder menu bar at the top of the screen, click on Go and choose "Connect to Server..."

Step 2: Use Server Address:

smb://smb-files.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/userid

You can click the '+' button to save the address. Click Connect.

Step 3: For Name enter TEACHING\userid, where userid is your WatIAM or Quest ID, and use your student.cs password (reset password if needed). Click Connect.