Mounting filesystems via SMB

Department supported Windows systems

  1. Mount your filesystem

Unsupported windows systems plugged into the department wired LAN

  1. Verify that you are sending encrypted passwords
  2. Mount your filesystem
If you have a laptop on the wireless network, or are connecting from some remote location (home, on travel), you have two options. You can either use the department VPN to tunnel all of your network traffic securely to the CS department, or you can use stunnel to just tunnel your filesystem mount.

VPN

  1. Install and start the department VPN client
  2. Verify that you are sending encrypted passwords
  3. Mount your filesystem

Stunnel

  1. Set up stunnel
  2. Verify that you are sending encrypted passwords
  3. Mount your filesystem