Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

MSc in Computing Science

Group Projects, 2000 - 2001

Accessing Your Shared Filespace

All project groups have been allocated some shared filespace. The purpose of this is:

• To give you additional file-space to store project-related work.

• To help you share files with other members of your group. All members of your specific group can both write to the shared directories and read files that other group members have placed there, even edit and over-write those files. It is your own responsibility to be careful and not destroy work that other members of your group have placed in the shared space. Your group-space is not accessible to anyone other than members of your own group.

This page explains how you can access this shared filespace.

• You need to know the number which I have allocated to your project. You can find that out by either looking at the original list of projects (http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ob3/Teaching/GroupProjects/projectsQ&A.html) or at the list of project-allocations (https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ob3/Teaching/GroupProjects/ChoiceForm/allocations-2.txt).

• Suppose you have discovered that your group number is 5. Then the name of your UNIX user-group which CSG have allocated to you is g01conv05. I'm sure you have all spotted the pattern...

Accessing your shared filespace from Linux

Under Linux, you can access your shared file-space by going to directory /vol/project/2001/conv/g01convXX .
Note: If any groups are planning to largely use this filespace from Linux, I may need to give you some additional instructions here on how to make sure that other group members can write to files that you have created. Let me know if you run into problems.

Accessing your shared filespace from WindowsNT

1. Click on Start->Run:
   
   

2. In the window that appears, enter \\falcon:
   
   
   
   Click OK.

3. You should then see a window like this:
   
   
   
   
   

4. Right-click on the project folder:
   
   
   
   and select Map Network Drive.

5. Select driver letter G: (for Group project...). Also make sure that the Reconnect at Logon box is ticked.

   
   
   Click OK.

6. You can from now on access the projects-filespace through drive G:
   
   
   
   If you open G:\2001\conv, you will see the various shared directories for your course.
   
   
   
   You will be able to open and use your project's directory, but not those belonging to other projects.

If there are any difficulties with these shared directories, please let me know.

Many thanks to CSG, in particular Duncan White, for setting up this filespace.

Olav Beckmann
Last change: February 2, 2001 at 00:36:16.
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