How to mount the Research Data Storage Service on Linux
This guide outlines options for mounting the Research Data Storage Service on Linux.
This guide is aimed at...
- Researchers
Instructions
A package is required to be installed for CIFS share mounting in Linux: cifs-utils
This can be installed with (for example): sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
(on Debian/Ubuntu derived OSs) sudo yum install cifs-utils
(on RedHat/CentOS derived OSs)
The share can then be mounted with the command:
sudo mount \
-t cifs \
-o domain=ad.ucl.ac.uk,user=<ucl_username>,uid=<local_user> \
//live.rd.ucl.ac.uk/<project_name> \
<destination>
where: <ucl_username>
is your UCL seven letter id./username, <local_user>
is your local user name on the Linux system you are mounting on, <project_name>
will be given in your welcome email and is of the long form: ritd-ag-project-rdabcd-abcdefg
, and <destination>
is where you would like to mount the CIFS share.
The uid=<local_user>
term can be omitted if only root will be writing data or if write access is not needed for other users. It can also be replaced with noperm
, which will give all users on your local machine access to the remote storage as though they are you. There are some other permission settings you may wish to change: please see man mount.cifs
for help.
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