IT Office

Staff and PhD

• File storage
• Software
• Connect to a printer
• Buying computers
• Buying printers, etc.
• Laptop loan
• Apple OS X help
• BioSci website
• IT access for visitors
• Data and computer security

Working from home

• Overview
• Remote Desktop
• File access (VPN)
• File transfer (SFTP)

Undergrad and MSc

• Remote desktop and electronic journals
• C33 public computer room
• Where do I save my work?

Connect to shared folders

Please note: Most people in the School use Windows PCs but we can give Apple advice, provide software, and help get things working.

Your Apple computer must be connected to the Biological Sciences network or the VPN (see Hints).

1. Open the Finder.
2. Click Go, then Connect to Server.
3. Enter a Mac-friendly address from the tables below.
4. Click Connect.
5. Select Connect as: Registered User.
6. For Name enter UOB\ followed by your University username. E.g. UOB\ab1234 or UOB\bzabc
7. For Password enter your normal University password.
8. Click Connect.
9. Your network drive should open as a new volume in Finder.

Please contact the IT Office if you get stuck.

Mac-friendly addresses

Drive	Description	Address
K:	University personal (CUFS)	smb://cufs1.bris.ac.uk/homes.
N:	Research data	See table below
P:	BioSci personal	Follow the guide below
T:	School home folder	smb://is-c2b4x64.cse.bris.ac.uk/VFS8
G:	Common drive	smb://is-c3b9x64.cse.bris.ac.uk/VFS8-4/Common
W:	Older websites	smb://bio-darwin.bio.bris.ac.uk/WWWRoot$

Find your N: drive's Mac-friendly address

Labs	Address
InsectTemp MammalGroup PlantPathMolGen	smb://is-c2b4x64.cse.bris.ac.uk/VFS8/GroupShares
Behaviour CommunityEcology MicrobialPhysiologyAndEcology Physiol	smb://is-c2b4x64.cse.bris.ac.uk/VFS8-3
BehaviouralEcology Bioacoustics CerealGenomics ContinuingEdu Ecovis InsectGroup MicrobialPhysiology&Ecology MolecularParasitology plantpathologyandmoleculargenetics Xenopusneuro xenopusparasitologygroup	smb://is-c3b9x64.cse.bris.ac.uk/VFS8-4/GroupShares
BatGroup	smb://bio-nt2.bio.bris.ac.uk/BatGroup
NematodeGroup	smb://bio-nt2.bio.bris.ac.uk/NematodeGroup
Bio Imaging	smb://is-c2b4x64.cse.bris.ac.uk/vfs8-2/Bio Imaging video store
MammalGroup	smb://is-c2b4x64.cse.bris.ac.uk/vfs8-2/GroupShares/MammalGroup

Find your P: drive's Mac-friendly address

1. Login to a Biological Sciences Windows PC, such as a C33 computer.
2. Click the Start menu.
3. Click Run.
4. Type cmd and click OK. A black box should appear.
5. Type net use in the box and press Enter.
6. Find the entry for your P: drive. (You might need to scroll up.) Write down the last two words of the address. Replace the back-slash (\) with a forward slash (/). Examples:
   • Staff/bzabc
   • PhD/bzabc
   • MSc/ab1234
7. Add your two words to end of this address:
   smb://is-c2b4x64.cse.bris.ac.uk/vfs8/Users/

Examples

• \\dfs1.bris.ac.uk\DeptFS\BioSci\Users\Staff\bzabc
  becomes
  smb://is-c2b4x64.cse.bris.ac.uk/vfs8/Users/Staff/bzabc

• \\dfs1.bris.ac.uk\DeptFS\BioSci\Users\PhD\bzabc
  becomes
  smb://is-c2b4x64.cse.bris.ac.uk/vfs8/Users/PhD/bzabc

• \\dfs1.bris.ac.uk\DeptFS\BioSci\Users\MSc\ab1234
  becomes
  smb://is-c2b4x64.cse.bris.ac.uk/vfs8/Users/MSc/ab1234

Hints

• To automatically connect to a network share in future, drag your new volume into the Login Items screen.
• You can access shared folders from home after you connect to the Virtual Private Network (VPN) (staff only).