Accessing LINC Storage and Data Directories

LINC maintains three storage areas that are of interest to their users.  These areas are

• Additional User Storage Space
• LINC Data Sets
• Software
  

While most of the software is oriented to the LINUX machines, where possible, we are providing platform independent software solutions as well.

How to access these directories depends on whether you are on a CACS LINUX machine or a CACS Windows machine.

LINUX

• If you are a member of LINC, you have additional storage space, which is located at

/nimbus/users/your_CACS_ID

• The first data directory contains feature-based, image-based, or mixed-media data.  It is located at
  

/nimbus/data

• The second data directory contains text-based data.  It is located at
  

/nimbus/textData

• For software, generally, you shouldn't need to access it directly.  However, if you wish to, the path to the software directory is
  

/nimbus/sw

WINDOWS

There are two ways to access the directories.

Drive Mapping

1. This should be a one time setup.
   
2. Open the explorer windows.
3. Make sure you go to the 'My Computer' Level (you should see the hard drive, any CD/DVD drives, and the S drive (the S drive provides access to your CACS Linux directory)
4. Click on tools
5. Select Map Network Drive
6. To access the LINC User Storage
   
7. 1. Select a Drive Letter (other than one in use by the computer.  I'd suggest X)
   2. For the folder, place \\newsamba\cloudusers
   3. Note, you will see all the directories under cloudusers.  To access yours, just navigate to it as normal.  You should be able to treat it like a normal windows directory (within reason).

8. To access the LINC Data directory

9. 1. Select a Drive Letter (other than one in use by the computer.  I'd suggest Y)
   2. For the folder, place \\newsamba\clouddata

10. To access the software directory

11. 1. Select a Drive Letter (other than one in use by the computer.  I'd suggest Z)

    2. For the folder, place \\newsamba\cloudsw

Explorer Mapping

1. Open the explorer windows
2. To access the user directory, type in the address location \\newsamba\cloudusers
3. To access the first data directory (feature, imagery, and mixed data), type in the address location \\newsamba\clouddata
4. To access the first data directory (text data), type in the address location \\newsamba\cloudtext
5. To access the software directory, type in the address location \\newsamba\cloudsw

If you have any problems, please let Ryan know.