Map Z: Drive

If your ECR6 account is configured to allow use of the PCs in our computer labs, you can now map your Z: drive from your departmenal office/lab. Note that this requires the use of Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Mac OS X. This functionality is not yet generally available to members of faculty or staff, who still have all their files housed on the VMS server, and who don't typically receive computer facility PC access by default.

Note that mapping drive letters is not possible outside of the local network (i.e. within the Koffolt-Fontana-MacQuigg-Watts building complex). You can access the contents of your Z: drive from anywhere using FTP by connecting to the system named er6s2.ecr6.ohio-state.edu and logging in with your ECR6 username and password.

Windows (Compatible) Access to Z: Drive

The following sections detail how to access your Z: drive from various flavors of Windows.

Windows NT 4.0

Right-click on "Network Neighborhood" and select "Map Network Drive..."

In the dialog which appears, use the following settings:
- Drive: Set to "Z:" (without the quotes)
- Path: Set to "\\er6s2.ecr6.ohio-state.edu\<username>$" (without the quotes), where <username> represents your ECR6 username (e.g. CE_SMITH, MS_JONES, etc.). Note the specification of a trailing dollar-sign ("$"), which is required.
- Connect As: Enter "ECR6\<username>" (without the quotes), where <username> represents your ECR6 username.
- It is entirely up to you whether you enable the "Reconnect at Logon" option. With it enabled, you won't have to specify your ECR6 password each time you want to connect to your Z: drive, but access is less secure this way.
- When you click on the OK button, you will be prompted for your password. This is your ECR6 password (e.g. what you use to logon to our PCs or access your E-mail).

Windows 2000

Right-click on "My Network Places" and select "Map Network Drive..."

In the dialog which appears, use the following settings:
- Drive: Set to "Z:" (without the quotes)
- Folder: Set to "\\er6s2.ecr6.ohio-state.edu\<username>$" (without the quotes), where <username> represents your ECR6 username (e.g. CE_SMITH, MS_JONES, etc.). Note the specification of a trailing dollar-sign ("$"), which is required.
- It is entirely up to you whether you enable the "Reconnect at logon" option. With it enabled, you won't have to specify your ECR6 password each time you want to connect to your Z: drive, but access is less secure this way.
- Click on "different user name." In the "User name:" field, enter "ECR6\<username>" (without the quotes), where <username> represents your ECR6 username. Complete the "Password" field with your ECR6 password (e.g. what you use to logon to our PCs or access your E-mail). Click the OK button.
- Click on the "Finish" button to complete the connection to your Z: drive.

Windows XP

Use the same procedure as the Windows 2000 procedure, above. (You may need to modify your desktop layout to display the "My Network Places" icon.) Do NOT click on the "different user name" link. Instead, just click on the Finish button and at that point, you will be prompted for your username and password. Enter these as described under the Windows 2000 procedure, above. If you enabled the "Reconnect at logon" option in the main dialog, you must also enable the option to "Remember my password" in the username/password dialog. (The "Remember my password" option is not available in Windows XP Home Edition.)

Mac OS X

In the Finder, choose "Connect to Server..." from the Go menu. In the browsing box, enter the following into the URL field:

smb://er6s2.ecr6.ohio-state.edu/<username>$/

In the above, <username> represents your ECR6 username (e.g. CE_SMITH, MS_JONES, etc.). Note the specification of a trailing dollar-sign ("$") immediately after your username, which is required. Click the Connect button and you should be prompted for your ECR6 username and password.

Accessing the OpenVMS (Web) Server via Windows (Compatible) File Sharing

If you are using a PC in the computing facility, you will find an item named "Map VMS Directory" in Start->Programs->Network. This will map the "Y:" drive letter to your storage area on the VMS server. You may want to use this when managing your personal Web content. (The WWW folder on your Z: drive [if it exists] is NOT mapped to your personal Web pages.) If you need to map to the VMS server from outside the computing facility (but within the local network), see the next parapgraph. FTP access to the OpenVMS server is available at ftp.ecr6.ohio-state.edu and logging in with your ECR6 username and password.

Mapping a Drive Letter to the OpenVMS (Web) Server

The OpenVMS server is where your personal Web content is stored and served. Follow the directions, above, appropriate for your operating system. For the path (where you'd specify "\\er6s2.ecr6.ohio-state.edu\<username>$", above), use "\\er6s1.ecr6.ohio-state.edu\<username>" instead. Note that you do NOT use a trailing dollar sign with the OpenVMS server. If you already mapped Z:, you will need to choose a different drive letter (e.g. "Y:"). Non-students don't normally have this level of access by default. If you are in this group (i.e. faculty or staff), but your attempts to use this process don't work, check with ECR6 Management to make sure your account is configured properly.

File Naming Restrictions

If you are using Windows file sharing or FTP to manage files in your personal Web space on the OpenVMS server, be sure that any file names include only the following character classes:

Letters "A"-"Z"
Letters "a"-"z"
Numerals "0"-"9"
Hyphen (a.k.a. dash ["-"])
Dollar-sign ("$")
Underline (a.k.a. underscore, ["_"])

If you include spaces, parantheses, or other characters foreign to the server's native file system, you will encounter trouble accessing the files. What's more, files should have exactly one period (or "dot") in their names, separating the file name, proper, from the file name's extension (e.g. "my-file.html").

Eudora Configuration under Windows

To access your ECR6 Eudora configuration, make sure that the shortcut on your office/lab PC that accesses Eudora has the following defined for the "target" of the shortcut:

"C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Eudora\Eudora.exe" Z:\EUDORA

Note that the path to the EUDORA.EXE file on your system might vary somewhat from what is displayed here. (Also note that Eudora needs to be installed on your office/lab PC to implement this functionality. Eudora is available for download from OIT's software downloads site.) Remember that you can only run Eudora with a given configuration from a single PC at any one time. If you try to run Eudora with the same configuration from more than one system simultaneously, you will be presented with a dialog indicating the detection of a "remote instance" of Eudora. See this link from our online FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) document for details about this condition.