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Emergency Mounting of Network Drives

in case of problems with login- or drive-mounting scripts, or lack of scripts


CSU-Owned Computers
Any on-campus CVMBS user who has already logged into their computer, but experienced a problem in which the login process failed to report successful network drive mounting can manually mount those drives by following these instructions.  If these instructions fail, the Privately Owned version (below) should succeed for any Windows 2000 or newer computer.
  1. Click Start Button, Click Run, type 'cmd' w/o quotes, click OK
  2. In the Window that opened, type the following commands, beginning with the "net use ..." part, if you want to use the relevant drive, and hit Enter.
  3. S drive--  net use s:  \\griffin\openaccess
  4. T drive--  net use t:  \\minotaur\groups
  5. X drive--  net use x:  \\griffin\xdrive
  6. U drive--  net use u:  \\minotaur\(homedir)\(ename)
  7. Fillin your ename, and homedir w/o parens in the command for the U drive with one from the following:
    • BMSHome
    • CSHome
    • DLabHome
    • DOHome
    • ERHSHome
    • MIPHome
    • PVMxHome -- x is last digit of PVM grad year
      • 5 = 2005
      • 8 = 2008
      • 0 = 2010
  8. Call us if you have any problem with getting these instructions to work.


Privately Owned Computers e.g. PVM laptops
This applies most commonly to computers that use the "CVMBS Drives" script to mount drives. The only difference from the instructions above is a more complex syntax in the mounting commands of items #3 - 6 (Yes, the slashes do lean both left and right):
  1. S drive--  net use s:  \\griffin.cvmbs.colostate.edu\openaccess  *  /user:colostate\(ename)  /persistent:no
  2. T drive--  net use t:  \\minotaur.cvmbs.colostate.edu\groups  *  /user:colostate\(ename)  /persistent:no
  3. X drive--  net use x:  \\griffin.cvmbs.colostate.edu\xdrive  *  /user:colostate\(ename)  /persistent:no
  4. U drive--  net use u:  \\minotaur.cvmbs.colostate.edu\(homedir)\(ename)  *  /user:colostate\(ename)  /persistent:no

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phone: 1-0694.

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Last Edited: August 09, 2007

 

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