CST-SERVER Storage Definitions

There are three primary "volumes" or "drives" that the file server is configured with.  It can be broken up into personal storage, group storage, and applications.  Each area of the server is designed with a purpose.

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Personal Storage

This is where you can store files that only you can access (and the two CST-SERVER administrators).  You can put files here that you would like to access from your office, another computer on campus, from home, or another remote location.  This is not a place to copy the entire contents of your computer to for backup purposes.  Documents are allowed, but no "Windows", "System Folder", "Applications", or "Program Files" should be dumped here.

• On a Windows machine, this will be your "H:" drive if you logon to a computer associated with Biology, Chemistry, Dean's office, Geology, and Math.
• On a Macintosh, this is the volume that is titled with your campus globalid.
• On campus (or VPN connection), it can be accessed as:
  • Windows: \\cst-server\globalid$
  • Mac OSX: smb://cst-server.cst.cmich.edu/globalid$
• From off-campus, you can use the FTP protocol to access your space.  The information you would need to access it would be:
  • Host: ftp.cst.cmich.edu
  • Username: globalid
  • Password: your globalid password
  • Initial or Starting Directory: /users/globalid

Within this storage area is your personal web page area.  It is contained within the special folder "pub_html".  Please do not delete this folder.  If you do and create a new one, it will not work.  Anything within this folder is readable by anybody connecting to the CST webserver.

Group Storage (incomplete but informational)

This is the area of the server where you can share files with students and co-workers.  To the server, this is the Data volume and contains several folders that have been designed with a specific purpose.  Windows users will see this as their "K:" drive and Macintosh users will see it as the "Data" volume.

• Department folders (BIO, CHM, CST, GEL, and MTH) are designated for the faculty and staff of the respective department.  This can be used to transfer files back and forth with other department members, or to store documents that everyone might need access to.
• Within each of these department folders might be another folder called "OfficeUseOnly".  This is a folder that is further restricted to be accessed by only the department chair and any office workers.  If your department needs this, contact me to have this setup.
• The "Courses" folder will contain folders for various faculty that wish to make documents available to students.  This folder is readable by all accounts (students, faculty, etc) but is only writeable by the faculty member designated for that folder.  This is a good place to make handouts or datasets available.  Typically the faculty will create sub-folders named after each course, say "Bio500", in order to organize the information and to help the students find what they need easier.
• A folder called "Projects" is new for the 2004 year, and is still being developed.  Initially, the plan is to make a folder available that is readable only by a select group of users that are working on a project.  This could be a group of faculty, a faculty and some students, or a group of researchers spanning multiple departments.
• WebFiles is the location of all the various content (except personal) hosted by the college server for internet access.  Each subfolder contained in this folder is writeable by only those people designated to be an author for that area of content.  Pre-2004 this used to be in a "cst_html" folder in a person's personal space, but with multi-authorship being requested more frequently, the location was re-organized into this location.
• LectHall is a folder that will be going away.  Its original purpose was to allow transfer of a presentation to a lecture podium computer and then removed when it was no longer needed.  Unfortunately, this led to a lot of garbage to collect in this folder (almost 15GB) over the years.  With lecture podiums now being accessed with campus globalids, the transfer can now be made via your personal storage.  This folder will remain in a read-only state so that the data can be accessed by those people who thought this was a permanent storage location.

Applications

Coming soon, but you really don't need to worry about this volume.