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 ====== HowTo Access your Homedir ======
-Every user of the **IPG** network have a personal space on our central [[filer:details|file server]]. This space is completely at his/hers disposition and [[filer:everyfile|every kind of files]] can be recorded inside. **Maintaining all the personal files in this server means that your files are backupd** and that you can access it from every linux workstation of the Labs automatically and even from personal laptops with differents Operating systems, as Mac Os X or Windows.
+Every user of the **IPG** network have a personal space stored on our central [[filer:details|file server]]. This space is completely at his/hers disposition and [[filer:everyfile|every kind of files]] can be recorded inside. **Maintaining all the personal files in this server means that your files are under hourly backup operation** and that you can access it from every workstation automatically and even from personal laptops with different Operating systems, as Os X or Windows.
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-These facilities are available only for computers connected to the network by wire. Users connected to the wireless networks can't access hers/his homedir directly.
-</note>
-===== Access personal files from linux =====
+===== Access personal files from Linux =====
-Automatically, everytime you make a login on one of the workstation, the system connect to your homedir maintained in the central file server and you can access all your files as they are recorded locally. You don't have to do nothing else, to see your files.
+Automatically, when you login on one of the workstation, the system connect to your homedir maintained in the central file server and you can access all your files.
-If you use a personal laptop running linux, you can use the remote mounting of your homedir by using the **nfs** protocol. In this case you can chose the manual mode or the autofs daemon. Only the allowed workstation will be able to connect to the server, so you must ask to the System Administrator the permission to use the connection. In order to connect correctly follow [[filer:nfs|these ]] instructions.
-Of course Linux doesn't have limitations like others Operating Systems and users can use also others solutions. Refer to the instruction below if you prefer to use **afp** os **SMB**/**CIFS** protocol to connect to your homedir.
 ===== Access personal files from Os X =====
-Users of Os X Operating System can connect to his/hers homedir using the standard **afp** connection protocol developed by Apple or by using the **nfs** protocol. Due to the difficulty to have a full and simple support for **nfs** connection on the client side, we preferred to use the native **afp** protocol, more manageable by the users. This protocol isn't directly supported by our file server, but we have a server that act as gateway from **afp** to **nfs** protocol, so the access to the files is simplified at maximum. Just connect to the server **lthiserv3.epfl.ch** that you can find browsing the network from Finder, or directly using the Command-K key combination. In the last case use the **afp://lthiserv3.epfl.ch** formula.
+Users of Os X Operating System can connect to his/hers homedir using the **smb** connection protocol. Just  use the Command-K key combination on Finder and enter the string **smb:iscsrv30.epfl.ch** in the address bar, then clock on Connect. If the initial connection is successful, the system will ask for your Gaspar login credentials. After inserting these, you can select the directory to mount (your homedir is your login name, web is the web space disc, scratch is the temporary disk space). Once mounted you can access your files directly from the Os X applications.
-If the initial connection is successfull (you must be allowed to use the network, before that) the system will ask for your network login credentials. After inserting these, your homedir is mounted on the system and you can access your files from the applications.
-===== Access personal files from Windows =====
-Window use the **CIFS** (aka **SMB**) to access file on remote server and don't understand **nfs** protocol. As with Apple OS we use a **gateway** that translate the first protocol in the second (pardon to the esperts, I'm trying to simplify a lot). Windows users have to connect to **lthiserv3.epfl.ch** after connecting his/hers laptop to the network and have to insert the credentials when asked by the system.
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-Not all the users are allowed to connect using the **SMB** protocol. You must ask for a permission to the System Administrator.
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