• All Engineering students, faculty and staff are provided a Z:\ drive for storing their school/work files. The exact location of where your Z:\ is stored on our servers is dependent on if you are a student, staff or faculty member.

Z:\ Drive Locations

• Students: \\engsmfs03.eng.fau.edu\<FAU Net ID>$
• Faculty & Staff: you maybe located on either of these two locations.
  • \\engsmfs02.eng.fau.edu\<FAU Net ID>$
  • \\engfs2.eng.fau.edu\<FAU Net  ID> (not this one does not contain a $ sign)

Your <FAU Net ID> is your user name. This is the same one you use to sign into http://myfau.fau.edu and computers on campus.

Don’t forgot the $ at the end of the path if your Z:\ is located on either engsmfs03.eng.fau.edu or engsmfs02.eng.fau.edu

Mapping the Drive in Windows 7

•  Click on Start >> Computer 

• This should bring up File Explorer and should show you all the drives connected to your computer.
• Next click on Map network drive

• In the Map Network Drive wizard that pops up select Z: as your Drive using the drop down box.
• Type in your location of your Z:\ Drive where it says Folder. (If you don’t know the location please see Z:\ Drive Locations at the top of this page)
• Check Reconnect at logon
• Check Connect using different credentials
• Then click Finish.

• In the Windows Security prompt type in the following
  • User Name: fau\<FAU Net ID> (don’t forget the “fau\”. The backslash, “\” is found on your keyboard just above the enter key)
  • Password: type the same password used to sign into http://myfau.fau.edu and computers on campus.

•  Last click OK and you’ll be connected to your Z:\ Drive

Backup of the z: drive

There are 2 backups and a fail over of the z: drive done:

1. Shadow Copy:The server does a quick save  using shadow copy at 7AM , 12 Noon and 7PM ( you can recover yourself, see below)
2. Crashplan: A more detailed backup is done nightly starting at  3:00AM (this is more for a Disaster Recover mode) This is more for TSG in case of a major datacenter issue.
3. Mirror to another server: The data is mirrored to another server in case of a server (where your data resides)  crash.  This is a write for write mirror (so if it’s deleted in one place it’s deleted here as well) . In this case TSG will make the needed changes to assist.

Recovering a file from your z: drive (shadow copy)

• Right click  the folder where the file was saved(if it was in the Parent folder just right click any white area of the explorer window)
• Select Properties
• Select Previous versions
• Double click the the date you are looking for  (or select the date and click open)
• find the folder or file you want
• right click and select copy
• go to where you want the file to be put back to
• right click and select paste
• or just click and drag to the location you want the file

 See Also

* Network Drives

Students, Faculty and Staff are Eligible for Academic Discounts from Lenovo.  For more information, please click on the image above to be redirected to the Lenovo Academic website for FAU.  More information is also available at the FAU Lenovo site.

http://www.lenovo.com/fau

VMware View also allows you to connect your USB Storage devices to the remote desktop computer; however, there are a few additional steps required to make this happen.

Step 1: Remotely Connect to Cloud Computer

Step 1-1:

Double click on VMware View icon located on your desktop

Step 1-2:

You should get a window that looks like the one below. Next, insure the check box labeled,  ”Log in as current user:” is checked.

Step 1-3:

Click Connect. Then select the desktop pool you want to log into. We are going to select CEECS – Students for this demo. Then click Connect to establish a connection with the remote desktop VM.

Step 2: Connect your USB Storage Device

Step 2-1:

Connect your USB storage device to one of the USB slots available on the computer you are using. The computer may need to install a driver and properly configure the device. This may take a minute or two to complete.

Step 2-2:

Look at the top of your screen, there should be a small black menu bar at the center. Click Connect USB Device then choose the device you just plugged in.

See Also

• VMware (Remote Desktop Access)
• Installing VMware Fusion on a Mac

For a more detailed set of instructions please refer to the getting started guide provided by VMware.

Installing Fusion

1. Double-click VMware-Fusion-<1.x.x>-<xxxxx>.dmg to mount it.
• The contents of the disk image are displayed in a VMware Fusion Finder window
2. Browse to the VMware Fusion volume, and double-click the VMware Fusion icon to launch the Installation Assistant.
3. Follow the instructions in the Assistant to install VMware Fusion. At the end of the installation, the Assistant prompts for your serial number.
4. Enter your serial number.

• You can continue without entering a serial number, but you cannot power on a virtual machine until you have entered a valid serial number. You can
  enter your serial number at any time by choosing VMware Fusion >
  Licensing.

 Installing Windows Virtual Machine

1. From the Virtual Machine Library window, click the New button or choose File > New.
• The New Virtual Machine Assistant launches.
2. In the Introduction panel, click Continue.
3. In the Operating System panel, select an operating system and version for the new virtual machine.
4. In the Name panel, enter the name for the virtual machine in the Save as field.
• By default, the virtual machine will be saved in your <user>/Documents/Virtual Machines folder. To browse for a different location, select Other from the Where field.
5. In the Virtual Hard Disk panel, set the maximum size for the virtual hard disk.

The Advanced Disk Options section provides the following choices:

• „ Allocate all disk space now – This option gives somewhat better performance for your virtual machine. However, if you allocate all the disk now, you will not be able to use the VMware Tools shrink disk feature later. Allocating all disk space now is a time-consuming operation that cannot be canceled, and requires as much physical disk space as you specify for the virtual disk.
• Split disk into 2GB files – Select this option if your virtual machine will be used in a hard drive with a file system that does not support files larger than 2GB.„
• Use an Existing Virtual Disk – Select this option to use an existing virtual disk. Enter the existing virtual disk (.vmdk) file, including the path, or click Choose to browse for the file.
6. In the Windows Easy Install panel, select Use Easy Install.
• Enter your Name, Password (optional) and Windows Product key.

The entry in the Name field is displayed in information boxes as the name your Windows software is registered to. It is not the Windows user name. The entry in the Password field is the password for the windows administrator account only. The Product key is not provided by VMware. It is on the sticker attached to the packaging for the Windows operating system CD-ROM.

• Select Make your home folder accessible to the virtual machine to have Windows Easy Install configure your home folder as a shared folder, so you can share files between the virtual machine and your Mac.
• Select whether the virtual machine can Read only or Read & Write.
7. In the Finish panel:
• Leave the option Start virtual machine and install operating system now selected.
• If you are installing Windows from an installation disc, put the disc in your Mac CD/DVD drive and select the option Use operating system installation disc.

If you are installing from a disc image file, select the option Use operating system installation disc image file, and browse to the file.

8. Click Finish.

VMware Fusion installs Windows. This can take up to 45 minutes. After
installing Windows, VMware Fusion installs VMware Tools, and powers on
the virtual machine

See Also

• VMware (Remote Desktop Access)
• Connecting USB Storage Using VMware View Software

You can use:

1.GENIE  (please follow the link on that page that says “MAC OS”

2. Install vmware fusion (free via VMAP) and then install windows 7 (free via MSDNAA)

•  Please send an email to help@eng.fau.edu and ask for a VMAP account.  Please send this email using your FAU account only outside @fau.edu requests can not be handled for this
• You should already have an MSNAA (Free Microsfot software) account as it’s generated at the beginning of the semester and emailed to you, however, if not please email help@eng.fau.edu and ask for a MSDNAA account.  Please send this email using your FAU account only outside @fau.edu requests can not be handled for this
• Please follow this link for detailed instructions on installing VMWARE fusion.

To find out more about this software check out www.openoffice.org
or to download the software http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

Please make sure to save your documents created in this as  Word , Excel  etc or the person that you share the file with may not be able to open the document, becasue by default oppenoffice saves as a open Document Format (ODF).

An article from the March 14th issue of FAU Announcements of General Interest:

Use caution with email attachments and be wary of downloadable files on web sites. Do not open email attachments that you were not expecting, especially if they are from people you do not know. If you decide to open an email attachment, scan it for viruses first (see Using Caution with Email Attachments for more information). Not only is it possible for attackers to “spoof” the source of an email message, but your legitimate contacts may unknowingly send you an infected file. Also, avoid downloading files from web sites that you do not trust. If you are getting the files from a supposedly secure site, look for a web site certificate (see Understanding Web Site Certificates for more information). If you do download a file from a web site, consider saving it to your computer and manually scanning it for viruses before opening it. If you see any signs of an infection starting in your computer, use ALT F4 to safely terminate the suspect process — this is safer than clicking on the X to try and close the process. For more information about cybersecurity and safe computing, visit http://www.fau.edu/irm/network/safe_computing.php.

Students, Faculty and Staff are Eligible for Academic Discounts from HP. For more information, please click on the image above to be redirected to the HP Academic website for FAU. More information is also available in these two PDF Files:

HP Academy

HP Academic Program Flyer