How do I add a person to the facility's file share?
Facility staff contact ChemIT with specific information:
- Include NetID and name.
- Include which group.
- (Note: NMR's Linux accounts are not done through ChemIT. Thus, those NMR instruments are provisioned directly by Ivan, in NMR.)
What rights do my users have on my facility's file share?
- Read and write.
- Accessible fro their private computers.
- From off-campus, must use VPN.
What rights do my instrument accounts have on the facility's file share?
Read, Create(?) permissions, but not Change. This allows browsing wherever needed regardless of user, but no ability to change or remove anyone's work.
- Thus, although can create a folder within a permitted folder, can't rename the folder from the instrument.
- Removing or changing anything must be done from within a user's (or Admin's) account, and then is restricted to whatever that user can do (thus, only within their research group's folder).
How do I add a group? (ChemIT)
ChemIT staff's steps:
- At <http://www.cornell.edu/search/people.cfm>, confirm name matches NetID, as an error-check.
- In AD (Quest), add NetID of person to research group.
- Example: AS-CHM-NMR-ShareWolczanski
- For NMR requests: Within NMR's fileshare (CIT's SFS), use own ADM account to create folder with group's folder, using NetID as the folder's name.
- User can't do this from an instrument computer; they or NMR staff would first have to create the folder before the first use of the instrument. Hence, ChemIT staff doing so as a courtesy, even though not strictly required.
- NMR only: Specify equipment needed. (NMR's Linux accounts are not done through ChemIT)
How does my user access my facility's file share?
You need to add your own folder's name to the path, which is usually the PI's last name.
For Windows:
- NMR ---> \\files.cornell.edu\AS\CHM\NMR\Group
- X-ray—> \\files.cornell.edu\AS\CHM\Xray\FinalizedData\Group
For Mac using Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) and above:
- NMR ---> smb://files.cornell.edu/AS/CHM/NMR/Group
- X-ray—> smb://files.cornell.edu/AS/CHM/Xray/FinalizedData/Group
See the facilities documentation for more details.
- NMR's documentation: (where is it?)
- X-ray's documentation: (where is it?)
For NMR, a couple of non-group directories include:
ChemIT's general instructions to connect to a file share:
How will we clean out users given access to our facility's share who no longer should have access? How do I remove a group?
- Facility's staff should work with ChemIT staff to go through their list of file share users and groups.
How can I check what groups are in AD?
- Using the AD website lookup tool.