This guide covers the network drives that you can access when logged into a Salisbury University computer.
About the network drives
When you log into a University computer, you automatically have access to some or all of the following network drives, depending on where you are and whether you’re a student, faculty or staff.
Name (Letter) | Path | Description | Lab Software Drive (G) | n/a | This drive contains files necessary for academic lab software to function. |
Scanned Image Drive (J) | \\NAS\Printer | Departmental Canon all-in-one printers will save their scans to this drive. Faculty and staff only. | |||
Courses (K) | \\NAS\Courses | Students and Faculty have access to the K drive to share files and documents. This drive is organized by school, e.g. Perdue, Fulton, etc. Faculty have access to save and edit files on the K drive, while students open or print. | |||
Area/School (N) | \\NAS\Dept\schoolname | Faculty and Staff may have access to the N: drive to share documents and files within their area or school, e.g. Fulton. | |||
Departmental (O) | \\NAS\Dept\deptname | Faculty and most Staff have access to the O: Drive to share documents and files within their department. | |||
Personal (P) | \\NAS\Personal\username (faculty/staff) \\NAS\Studentp\username (student) | The P drive is personal network storage space. This is also where you would create a personal web page. Faculty and Staff get 5GB of storage space; students get 1GB of storage space (plus 1TB+ of OneDrive storage space.) | |||
University (U) | \\NAS\University | This is a folder used by administration to store and share University level documents. For most users, this will appear empty. Faculty and staff only. | |||
| Secure (S) | \\NAS\Securefile | This drive is only accessible by approved employees for use with files containing personal identifiable information. **The S drive is only available on SU owned devices with Global Protect VPN. It is not available using a personal computer with the SU On Demand VPN from files.salisbury.edu. |
Other drives may be available depending upon your department’s setup and your permissions, such as access to other departmental drives or specific drives. Some departmental employees may not have access to the default departmental drives by request of the department, and would need to request access if needed.
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Your computer should automatically map your network drives for you upon log on. However, sometimes you may need to manually add the network drives, called “mapping” the drive.
Using a Windows 7 & 8 pc
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Using a Windows 10 pc
- Click Start>File Explorer.
- Select This PC in the left hand navigation pane, if it is not already selected.
- Right-click This PC and choose Map Network Drive in the menu.
- Select the appropriate drive letter from the drop down menu.
- Enter the appropriate path from the table above in the Folder field.
- Check Reconnect at logon if you want to reconnect the next time you log onto the computer.
- Click Finish.
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- Open Finder.
- Click Go.
- Choose Connect to Server.
- Enter the appropriate path:
- For the K drive, enter smb://nas/courses
- For the J drive, enter smb://nas/printer
- For the O drive, enter smb://nas/dept/deptname, e.g. smb://nas/dept/fulton
- For the P drive:
- For students, enter smb://nas/studentp
- For faculty and staff, enter smb://nas/personal
- For the U drive, enter smb://nas/university
- For the S drive, enter smb://securefile/securenas
- Click Connect
Requesting Access to a Network Drive
You will automatically get rights to your department’s drives once your contract is entered into GullNet. Faculty and staff who work in two or more departments will only get access to their primary department’s network drives. To get access to another department(s) O drive, that department supervisor or department chair would need to request access for you. They would do the following:
- Log into our online ticketing system at http://itsupport.salisbury.edu
- Choose Logins, Accounts, and Access and then choose I need access
- Fill out the ticket, making sure to include the following:
- The name and username of the person who needs drive access.
- The name or path of the drive that is being requested (e.g., Chemistry’s O: drive).
- Click Submit
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Managing Files and Drive Space
Faculty and Staff
Faculty and staff should use their network drives (P, O, U, etc.) or OneDrive to store Salisbury University files and documents, as these files are backed up and encrypted.
- Faculty and staff should not save files to their local C drive.
- Faculty and staff should not save University or work related files to removable disk drives, as those drives are not secure and are not backed up or encrypted.Faculty and staff should also avoid using cloud storage options such as Box, DropBox or Google Drive, as these services are also unsecure and unencrypted.
SU is currently working to provide a cloud-based storage option to faculty and staff in the near future.
Requesting More Space
- Before requesting more drive space, it's a good practice to delete files that are no longer needed or being used.
- Faculty and staff can request more space by submitting a ticket to the IT Help Desk. Please include in the ticket an estimate of the amount of space you'll need and the reason for requesting more space.
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