Question:

Answer:

To access your Virginia Tech NAS space:

1. Open a terminal.
2. At the shell prompt, enter:
   cd /mnt
3. At the shell prompt, enter:
   ls
4. At the shell prompt, enter:
   mkdir storage.vt.edu
5. At the shell prompt, enter:
   mount -t smbfs -o "username=hokies\[Your Hokies ID]/hokies" //storage.vt.edu/[Your mystore location] /mnt/storage.vt.edu
   Notes:

   • Replace [Your Hokies ID] with your Hokies ID.
   • Replace [Your mystore location] with mystore or mystore2, as appropriate. To find your mystore location, see Determining the Location of My Storage Space on the Virginia Tech Network Attached Storage (NAS). (http://www.answers.vt.edu/ask4help/acctpassword/vtkb3029.htm)
   • If you receive a "listening" error, ignore the message.
   • If you receive the error message "session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password -name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.) SMB connection failed" or one similar to it, use the following command instead: mount -t smbfs -o "username=hokies\[Your Hokies ID]" //storage.vt.edu/[mystore location] /mnt/storage.vt.edu/
6. At the Password prompt, enter your Hokies password.
7. To view your directory on the NAS, enter:
   ls /mnt/storage.vt.edu/[Your Hokies ID]
   Note: Replace [Your Hokies ID] with your Hokies ID.