Access to the ChargerNet File System is available for those users who need to access their home directory or project area from a remote client (on campus or via the campus VPN).
URC maintains a Samba server which allows SMB capable clients (i.e. MS-Windows, MacOS X, and Linux) to mount remote shares as a local drive or mount point. To obtain permission to use this server, send email to URCSupport@uncc.edu.
Below are instructions for mounting a ChargerNet Samba Share from various client machine types. Note that the Samba server authenticates using Campus (NinerNet) passwords.
The examples below assume the following for ChargerNet user “joeuser”:
ChargerNet Samba Server: samba.urc.uncc.edu
ChargerNet login: joeuser (its.uncc.edu/joeuser)*
ChargerNet home directory: /users/joeuser
ChargerNet share name: joeuser
[ MS-Windows XP ]
1. Select ‘My Computer’
2. Select ‘Tools – > Map Network Drive’
3. Fill in path to folder (share) i.e. \\samba.urc.uncc.edu\joeuser
4. Select ‘Connect using a different user name’
5. Fill in username* (see footnote below) i.e its.uncc.edu\joeuser
6. Fill in NinerNet password.
[ MacOS X ]
1. In ‘Finder’ application select Go -> Connect to Sever
2. Fill in Server address (and share) indicating smb protocol i.e. smb://samba.urc.uncc.edu/joeuser
3. Press ‘Connect’
4. Fill in Name (ChargerNet login) i.e. joeuser (domain not required)
5. Fill in NinerNet password
[ Red Hat Linux - File Browser ]
1. In ‘File Broswer‘ application select File -> Connect to Server
2. Fill in the following:
Service Type: Windows share
Server: samba.urc.uncc.edu
Share: joeuser
Domain Name: its.uncc.edu
Name to use for connection: joeuser
3. Press ‘Connect’ button
4, Fill in NinerNet password.
[ Red hat Linux - Command Line ]
You can use the mount.cifs(8) command which is part of the samba(7) suite. See the man page for mount.cifs for more details
To mount a share (to /home/joeuser/samba on the client) use the following command:
$ /sbin/mount.cifs //samba.urc.uncc.edu/joeuser /home/joeuser/samba -o user=joeuser
To unmount the share:
$/sbin/umount.cifs /home/joeuser/samba
* Objects on the network including servers and even users are distinguished using “domain” naming conventions. For instance, the samba server referenced above belongs to URC and is therefore part of the ‘urc’ domain. Hence the full name of that object is: samba.urc.uncc.edu.
However, since the samba server uses the campus NinetNet system to authenticate user logins, the full user name (where required as in the case of a MS-Windows client) uses the ‘its’ domain not the ‘urc’ domain. Hence, a fully qualified user name is specified as: its.uncc.edu\joeuser.
