Network Drives
Lawrence Tech provides every student, faculty, and staff member with a personal share drive for storing files and data. These drives can be accessed from on and off campus. Storage capacity is capped at 300 MB. The drives are located in the Data Center and are backed up routinely.
In addition to personal shares, many academic and administrative departments have departmental share drives for storing data used by many members of their departments. These department share drives are also accessible from on and off campus.
If you are attempting to access a network drive while on campus, you must be either have a wired connection or be connected to the LTU Network. The LTU Guest network is does not allow access to network drives.
Mapping Instructions
Please click on the applicable operating system for instructions on mapping network drives :
Windows 7
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- Right click on "Computer"
- Click on "Map network drive"
- For Drive choose: a letter that's not already in use.
- In the Folder field...
- For faculty/staff shares enter: "\\radium\facstaff\[your 9 digit Banner no.]"
- For department shares enter: "\\radium\depts\[name-of-departmental-share]"
- For student shares enter: "\\radium\students\[your 9 digit Banner no.]"
- Make sure "Reconnect at logon" is checked
- Click "Finish"
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- Connect to the network through VPN
- Right click on "Computer"
- Click on "Map network drive"
- For Drive choose: a letter that's not already in use.
- In the Folder field...
- For faculty/staff shares enter: "\\radium.campus.ltu.edu\facstaff\[your 9 digit Banner no.]"
- For department shares enter: "\\radium.campus.ltu.edu\depts\[name-of-departmental-share]"
- For student shares enter: "\\radium.campus.ltu.edu\students\[your 9 digit Banner no.]"
- Make sure "Reconnect at logon" is checked
- Click "Finish"
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Windows XP
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- Right click on "My Computer"
- Click on "Map network drive"
- For Drive choose: a letter that's not already in use.
- Check the box “Reconnect at login.”
- In the Folder field...
- For faculty/staff shares enter: "\\radium\facstaff\[your 9 digit Banner no.]"
- For department shares enter: "\\radium\depts\[name-of-departmental-share]"
- For student shares enter: "\\radium\students\[your 9 digit Banner no.]"
- Click "Enter"
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- Click the “Start” button
- Click on “My Network Places.” A window opens.
- Click on “Add a Network Place” in the column on the left. A new window opens. Click "Next.”
- In "Where do you want to create this network location?" select “Choose a custom network location.” Click "Next.”
- In "Specify the location of your website" in the Internet or network address field...
- For faculty/staff shares enter: "https://facstaff.campus.ltu.edu/[your 9 digit Banner no.]."
- For department shares enter: "https://groups.campus.ltu.edu/[name-of-departmental-share]."
- For student shares enter: "https://students.campus.ltu.edu/[your 9 digit Banner no.]."
- Click "Next."
- Enter your campus username and password when prompted. (You may be prompted more than once). Your campus username should be preceded by "campus\"
- In "What do you want to name this location?" enter a meaningful name of your choosing for example, "My LTU Share.” Click "Next.”
- When you see "Completing the Add Network Location Wizard," check the box "Open the network location when I click Finish" and Click "Finish." It may take some time for the folder to open the first time.
- A Network Location has been created in the "Network Location" section of My Computer with the name you chose.
- To create a shortcut on your desktop, right-click the Network Location and select "Send to... Desktop.”
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MacOS X Leopard
| To begin, first click on the "Finder" icon located in the bottom left of your dock (by default). |
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| Next, click “Go” on the program bar at the top and select “Connect to Server…” |
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This brings up a new window asking for the server.
- Students should enter:
"smb://radium.campus.ltu.edu/Students/[Banner ID]"
- Faculty & staff should enter:
"smb://radium.campus.ltu.edu/FacStaff/[Banner ID]" -or- "smb://radium.campus.ltu.edu/FacStaff/[Campus Username]" (newer users will have Banner ID, older users will have campus username)"
- Departmental shares on radium should enter:
"smb://radium.campus.ltu.edu/Depts" then search for the share you want to connect to.
- Departmental shares on nitrogen should enter:
"smb://nitrogen.campus.ltu.edu/[Share-Name]"
Click “Connect.”
This method will only connects your Mac computer to the share temporarily. To reconnect, you will need to open Finder, see if the share is listed on the left, and if not, repeat the steps listed above to reconnect. |
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If asked to verify certificate, click “Continue.”
You will be asked for your Name and Password. This is the same campus username and password used to log in to Windows and connect to printers on campus.
When finished, click “OK.”
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