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Accessing Network Drives using Windows XP

If you are off-campus, on a tech-desk, or on the wireless network, you will need to establish a VPN connection before connecting to network drives.

Instructions for installing the VPN client can be found at http://www.iusb.edu/~sbit and following the link for phone, internet, and video connections.

It is strongly recommended to use Internet Explorer to minimize incompatibility issues

Accessing local drives:

  1. Open Internet Explorer
  2. In the Address Bar
  3. You may need to prefix your username with ads.iu.edu to authenticate to these systems (Ex. ads.iu.edu\username )
  4. Locate you directory
    • For department (H: or X: ) drive, double click the appropriate folder for your department.
    • For Campus Shared data (W: ) double click the folder Shared
    • For Student Shared data (S: ) double click the folder Stushared
    • For Personal Data Folders (O: ) double click the folder Home,  which will show you a list of all personal data folders, you will need to scroll down to your username and double click that folder.

Accessing M: drive:

M: drive is being retired as of May 5, 2006. See announcement Upgrades and Changes Involving the M:drive and Mypage