FAQ: How do I map a drive letter to my AFS home directory using IBM AFS?
| These instructions assume that you have already installed the AFS client, which is found in the Advanced area of Scout (http://www.it.iastate.edu/downloads/). 1. Find out the location of your AFS filespace. The simplest way to do that is as follows: a. Log in at http://asw.iastate.edu/ with your Iowa State Net-ID and password. b. Click "Manage Files". c. Read the location of your AFS directory at the top of the window where it says "Current directory". 2. Open the AFS Client Configuration Utility. Click Start -> Control Panel and double-click "AFS Client Configuration". 3. Click the "Drive Letters" tab. 4. Click "Add". 5. Choose a drive letter from the Drive Letter pull-down menu. Only unused drive letters will be displayed. 6. Under AFS Path, enter the path to your home directory with the slashes changed to backslashes. For example, "/afs/iastate.edu/users/03/02/joeuser" will become "afsiastate.eduusers 3 2joeuser". 7. Enter a brief description (no more than 12 characters, no spaces) next to "Description". 8. Make sure "Restore this mapping whenever I login" is turned on. 9. Click "OK" twice. The drive letter you selected should appear in My Computer, and you can use your home directory as you would any other drive. Your public web space on www.public.iastate.edu is in the directory WWW under your home directory, so you can open and save webpages directly to and from X:WWW (where 'X' is whatever you declared your drive letter to be). This is much simpler than using FTP. You can also map another drive letter to the WWW directory to eliminate adding "WWW" to your web filenames. You can also create drive letters for public filesystems; most public filesystems are located in /afs/iastate.edu/general/filesystemname. If you're not sure where a filesystem is located, map a drive letter to /afs/iastate.edu, from which you'll be able to browse the entire Iowa State AFS tree. You will only be able to read those files and folders to which you have specifically been given access and will only be able to save files in these folders if you have been given write privileges in them. | |
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