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Network Shares

You can access disks on Ponyland using your local filebrowser, so you can copy files over using drag and drop.

Windows or Mac users, please refer to:

Linux users, please refer to:

Samba Shares

Several folders on ponyland are accessible from within the RU-network as Network Shares, using Samba. The following shares are available:

Name Location on Ponyland URL
bigdata /vol/bigdata bigdata-srv.science.ru.nl/bigdata
bigdata2 /vol/bigdata2 bigdata2-srv.science.ru.nl/bigdata2
tensusers /vol/tensusers tensusers-srv.science.ru.nl/tensusers
tensusersX (X=2,3,4,5) /vol/tensusersX tensusersX-srv.science.ru.nl/tensusersX
home ~ UNIQUE_STRING.home.science.ru.nl

Your unique URL to the home volume can be found by logging in to https://diy.science.ru.nl and looking under 'Windows Path' in the Home Volume section. See locations

Connect using Windows

  1. Open a Windows Explorer window.
  2. Right click on Computer and then on Map network drive.
  3. In the address bar, type '\\' followed by the URL and press Enter. In the URL, you might need to change slashes into backslashes (so, for instance, connect to \\tensusers-srv.science.ru.nl\tensusers\YOURFOLDER).
  4. Tick the box 'Connect using different credentials'
  5. Log in using your Ponyland username and password.

Note: on Windows 7, you might want to click something similar to 'Use other credentials' or 'Use another username' for step 2, otherwise it will automatically try to log in with your university-wide u-number (and fail to do so).

Connect using Mac

  1. Open a Finder window
  2. From the top menu, click Go, then choose connect to Server (⌘K)
  3. In server address, type: smb://tensusers-srv.science.ru.nl and connect
  4. Log in using your username and password

SSHFS

You can mount remote filesystems via SSHFS. After that, you can just use Nautilus (the Ubuntu filebrowser) to manage your files on Ponyland.

Example mounting /vol/bigdata from Ponyland to ~/bigdata on your local computer.

mkdir ~/bigdata
sshfs $USERNAME@applejack.science.ru.nl:/vol/bigdata ~/bigdata

You can unmount using fusermount.

fusermount -u ~/bigdata

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