Mapping or Mounting Your Home Drive in Linux

Note: In order to access your Home Drive from a non-UBC internet connection, you must be connected to the myVPN service first.

Note: What you see on your screen may differ from the illustrations, depending on your distributed version of Linux. The examples below are from Ubuntu

Important: Please use the CWL username that gives you access to the Faculty/Staff Self-Service Portal at www.hr.ubc.ca.

To map your Home Drive, please follow these steps below:

1. Ensure the cifs-utils package is installed on your system
2. Open a Terminal session:
   • In Ubuntu Unity, click the Ubuntu logo and type terminal
     
   • Or in Gnome, click on Applications > Accessories > Terminal
     
     
     
3. /mnt/<foldername> is where you wish to have your Home Drive mounted
   <cwl> - is your CWL username
   In the open Terminal session, enter the following commands
   
   # First, fetch your UID & GID
   $ id -u
   <linux_uid>
   $ id -g
   <linux_gid>
   
   # Next, make your mount point
   $ sudo mkdir /mnt/<foldername>
   
   # Finally, mount your Home Drive
   $ sudo mount.cifs //files.ubc.ca/<cwl> /mnt/<foldername> -o user=<cwl>,uid=<linux_uid>,gid=<linux_gid>,domain=ead,sec=ntlmssp
   
   
4. Enter your password at the prompt
5. If successful, all your Home Drive files will be located in the /mnt/<foldername> on your local machine