Using the home directory on Linux (z drive)

• Open the File menu from the panel.
• Select Connect to server...

The Connect to Server dialog box opens.

• From the Type dropdown menu, select Windows share.
• Enter ad.helsinki.fi in the Server field.
• Enter /home in the Share field
• In the Folder field, enter the name of the subdirectory, which consists of the first letter or your username and the actual username (/u/username), e.g. /r/rkeskiva.
• Enter you username in the Username field.
• Enter ATKK in the Domain name field.
• Click Connect.

• Enter your password in the Password field of the window that opens.
• Click Connect.
• Note: Make sure that Remember forever is not ticked. Your password is now saved in plain language on the hard drive of your workstation. However, this poses a serious information security risk and is contrary to the university’s information security recommendations.

  

• Your home directory is now available.

  

• Enter the command
  smbclient //home#.ad.helsinki.fi/u/username

  where the value for home# can be found in the table below, based on the first letter of your username, u is the first letter of your username and username is your username.

  first letter of username	home#
  a	home0
  b c d e	home1
  f g h	home2
  i j	home3
  k l	home4
  m	home5
  n o p	home6
  q r s	home7
  t u v	home8
  w x y z	home9

For example, the command line of the user Raimo Keski-Vääntö (username rkeskiva) looks like this:

smbclient //home7.ad.helsinki.fi/r/rkeskiva -U 'ATKK\rkeskiva'

Password:
Domain=[ATKK] OS=[EMC-SNAS:T5.6.49.3] Server=[SMB2] smb: \r\rkeskiva\>

The software resembles a traditional unix ftp

• List of commands with the ? character
• Some commands:
  • dir list the files of the remote directory
  • get get a file from the remote directory
  • mget get several files from the remote directory
  • put send the file to the remote directory
  • mput send several files to the remote directory
  • cd change remote end default directory
  • lcd change local default directory