Introduction to personal storage (I:\ Drive)

• Connecting to personal storage
• Out of personal storage space (over quota)
• Lost or corrupted data

Each student enrolled in the School of Architecture and Planning is provided a central storage area to save personal data. When logged into the computers located in the School of Architecture and Planning, this area on the server appears as the I:\ drive in My Computer.

• Storage limits (quotas) are as follows:
  • Faculty and staff: 10 GB
  • Graduate Students: 2 GB
  • Senior and Juniors: 1.0 GB
  • Sophomore and Freshman: 500 MB
  • Visitors: 500 MB
• The I:\ drives are protected from loss that might occur from viruses, data corruption, and accidental deletion.

When this limit is approached, a warning is issued; if the drive reaches capacity then all data on the drive is rendered READ-ONLY.

This section is intended to aide in the connection to the servers at the School of Architecture and Planning from ANY computer in ANY location.

Connecting to personal storage

If you are using a computer which is maintained by the School of Architecture and Planning, then you will not need to follow these directions as the connection to your personal storage is done automatically when a successful log in occurs.

Read-only access:

Windows XP:

1. Open any browser of your choice and type into the address bar:
   https://arpl-4.ap.buffalo.edu/UBit username
   (replace UBit username with your UBit username assigned to you by the university)
2. When prompted for a username and password type in: username: AD\UBit username password: your UBit password
3. Click OK.

The screen the appears will be the contents of your I:\ drive. You can now click on to view images or click on and download files that would not normally be viewed in the browser that you are using.

Read and write access

• If it is your intention to upload files to and from the server, you must follow these steps:

Windows XP users:

1. Open My network places either by double clicking on the icon on the desktop or navigating to the icon from the Start Button.
2. Click on the Add a network place option on the left hand side of the My network places window. The Add a network place wizard will appear.
3. Click Next. The wizard will take a few moments to "gather some information from your internet provider".
4. Click on "Choose another network location" and click on the next button.
5. In the Internet or network address window type in the address from above that you wish to connect to and click the next button.
6. An authentication window will appear. Enter your username and password as described above. Place a check mark in the "Remember my password" box. Click OK.
7. Click Next and Finish.

For MAC OS X users:

Please note that in order to use this feature, it is required of you to be using Mac OS 10.4 or greater.

1. In the Finder, choose Go > Connect To Server.
2. Type the following address of the server in the Server Address field:
   
   smb://arpl-4.ap.buffalo.edu/username$
   
3. Click Connect. If a dialogue box appears requiring some log in information then make sure that you type:
   
   Domain: AD
   Username: your UBit username
   Password: your UBit password

You can now download and upload data to and from your I:\ or S:\ drive.