Desktop Services
Access to DS-Filestore CIFS Service from Linux
Versions tested - SUSE Linux 10.1, openSUSE 10.2. You may need to be logged in as root.
Note: The whole share path is not valid with smbfs. You can only connect to the volume root and manually navigate to your home directory.
e.g. //home.ds.cam.ac.uk/TZ
You need first to identify the volume on which your files are stored, using the table below.
The two-letter code (e.g. TZ) depends on the first character of your CRSid, as below:
| Character | CIFS share |
| A,B | //home.ds.cam.ac.uk/AB |
| C,D | //home.ds.cam.ac.uk/CD |
| E,F,G,H | //home.ds.cam.ac.uk/EH |
| I,J | //home.ds.cam.ac.uk/IJ |
| K,L | //home.ds.cam.ac.uk/KL |
| M,N | //home.ds.cam.ac.uk/MN |
| O,P,Q,R | //home.ds.cam.ac.uk/OR |
| S | //home.ds.cam.ac.uk/SS |
| T,U,V,W,X.Y.Z | //home.ds.cam.ac.uk/TZ |
Then use the mount command
mount -t smbfs -o username=[DS userid] [CIFS share to volume root] [mount point]
e.g. mount -t smbfs -o username=zzzz99 //home.ds.cam.ac.uk/TZ /tmp/cifsmount
Note that in recent Linux distributions smbfs no longer exists and is replaced by cifs
To unmount use
umount [mount point]
Using CIFS to connect to other resources
Group filespaces are available via CIFS from //home.ds.cam.ac.uk/ux
Volume SSCH: is available via CIFS from //home.ds.cam.ac.uk/ssch