How to access your home drive outside the Chemistry Department.

It is possible to access your home drive from computers located outside the Department of Chemistry, namely in ANU Computer labs and from home via the Chemistry Dial-up.
This feature means that you will be able to retrieve and backup documents without having to carry extra disks around with you and be able to work with files that may be too large to fit on a floppy disk.
Access your home drive outside the department requires a bit of extra effort but is not too hard. Normally when you log into a PC in the Department, a script runs that 'maps' various network drives on your computer, including your home drive. This enables you to access your home drive from any computer inside the department.

There are a number of reasons why you may want access to your home drive remotely.

1. As a PC or Macintosh user in an ANU computer lab working directly on a file on your home drive at a time when a Chemistry computer may not be available to you.
2. As a PC or Macintosh user working at home wanting to save a copy of a file to your Chemistry home drive for printing or further work from other locations.
3. As a PC or Macintosh user requiring to open a file for a presentation or to copy a file to a machine in another building.

Prerequisites

First of all you will need a Chemistry Department account (this is different to your University/Email account). When your Chemistry account is setup you will be allocated space on one of our servers where you can save a copy of your work. (If you are a Macintosh user make sure that you request that your folder will be shared to Macs as well as PCs) You may also have access to other network drives which are shared with other people (such as chemstudent and chemstaff). Please note that the 'user' account cannot be used for remote access you will need your own account.
Secondly you will need to know your University username and password. This is typically your staff/student number and is used for email as-well-as access to other University resources such as computer lab machines and library.

How to access your home drive using a Macintosh located elsewhere in the University. (MACOS 9.x and earlier)

This is an easy process that uses the University wide Appletalk protocol.
You will need: A Chemistry username/password. Access to a Mac located elsewhere in the university which may also require a university username/password.

We are assuming you have already logged into the Mac..

From the APPLE menu select Chooser. In the screen that pops up click on the AppleTalk icon. In the window below where you clicked on the AppleTalk icon you will see a list of University AppleTalk zones. Scroll until you find the one called Chemfac. In the right window you will see a list of servers. Highlight the server that has your home drive and then click on OK. [You will need to check to see which server hosts your home drive] You will be prompted for your Chemistry username and password. Once you have entered these correctly you will be presented with a windows with a list of names. Scroll down until you see yours and click OK. Click on OK when the message pops up on the screen. Your home drive will appear as an extra icon on the desktop. [Don't forget to 'trash' that icon when you have finished]
On later versions of MACOS you may also see a button, in the Chooser window, that allows you enter the server's IP address. The actual IP address will depend on where your home drive is located and can be given to you by the Department's network administrator.
For users of MAC OSX you can either use the Chooser from the Classic environment or you can go to the Go menu and select Connect to server. The window that pops up will give you option of scrolling through the AppleTalk zones much like Chooser or you can type in the server's IP address. Once again you will be asked for a Chemistry username/password in order to gain access to your home drive.

How to access your home drive using a Macintosh from home.

You will need: A dial-up (Remote Access) account for Chemistry. A Macintosh running OS9 or earlier (It will no doubt work under OSX but I haven't tried it.). Your Mac will need to be already setup to dial up correctly.

Before you dial up to Chemistry go to the Apple Menu and select Control Panel. Choose AppleTalk Set the drop down Connect to menu to Remote Only (If this is not an option try the modem port). Now dial up to Chemistry. Once connected and logged in try to access your home drive using the methods described earlier. Don't forget to make allowances for the slower connection speed.

How to access your home drive using a Windows 2000/XP computer located elsewhere in the University.

This is where you will need to do some work. I have supplied some pics to make it easier for you.

Once you have logged into the computer with your University username/password you can gain access to your Chemistry home drive by clicking on the My Computer icon with the right mouse button and selecting Map network drive from the pop-up menu.
A window will pop-up such as the one below.

First of all you need to type in the name of the server and the home drive you need to access. This is done in the format \\serveraddress\username$ where the serveraddress is the IP address of the machine that houses your home drive and username is your Chemistry login name followed by the $ sign.
For example: If someone with the username of jones wanted to access their home drive that was located on chemserver they would type in the following \\150.203.123.65\jones$. [You will need to check which server hosts your home drive and find out it's IP address] Don't click on Finish or hit ENTER yet.
Untick where it says Reconnect at logon.
Now click where it says different user name. This is where you will enter your Chemistry username to gain access to your drive. You will see a window like the one below.

When you logged into the lab/other computer you were logged automatically into the IC domain. You need to tell the computer that you need to connect to either the Chemistry0 or Chemistry domains and this is done the same way I have done in the above figure. First of all type in the name of the domain you wish to connect to [at the moment most people are still on chemistry0 but are being moved to chemistry. Always check first. Then type a 'back slash' followed by your chemistry username. Type in your password in the correct place and click on OK. Then click on FINISH to close the other window. There will be a short delay while the computer requests permission to access Chemistry resources. If you don't see an error message then mapping was successful. Open up My Computer and you should see your Chemistry home drive along with University network drives. In the figure below you can see my Chemistry home drive as the third icon from the top. In this case my home drive is located on CHEMCW (150.203.123.173). Now you can save/edit/delete files on your home drive from a lab PC.

By the way. If you are using a Windows 2000/XP machine inside Chemistry, you can access your IC drives using a similar method.

How to access your home drive using your computer at home.

This is a little tricky since I cannot know how your home PC is setup however, for this exercise I will use a standard PC running Microsoft Windows 98 and dial-up networking. Lets assume it is setup to dial into Chemistry (There are instructions on how to do this elsewhere.)
Once you have connected, click on the My Computer icon with the right mouse button. Select map network drive from the pop-up menu [If this is not an option then your computer is not setup correctly for networking – make sure the Client for Microsoft Networks is installed in the network Control Panel.
You should see the following window.

Type the location of your home drive in the Path window in the format \\serverip\username$ [remember you will need to check the ip address of your home server]. It should look similar to the pic below.

Click on OK. There will most likely be a long wait while the drive is mapped. This will be caused by the slow connection speed. Eventually if you don't get an error message, the drive will appear. And you can retrieve/send your files.

IMPORTANT: If you access any Chemistry resource from a home computer please make sure that your anti-virus is up-to-date and you are the only person to use that resource.