NetStorage: Accessing Network Drives From Off Campus

At last, the long-awaited ability to access your network files from home, or anywhere! Using NetStorage you can access your NMC network files from any web browser. We suggest that you follow these instructions from your workstation first. It'll make things easier from home if you know what to expect.

We've written these instructions for Internet Explorer 6. If you are on an older or different browser, there will be differences and you'll have to figure them out—or download a newer version of IE. We would love to have the resources to support other browsers, but that is not currently the case.

1. If you're going to be editing or creating files and then storing them back on the network, you need to have your browser's security set to allow it. From the main Internet Explorer window (it doesn't matter what web page you're on), click "Tools" > "Internet Options" > "Security." For Internet security (the globe icon), set the level to "medium-low." Then click OK and close your browser.
2. Reopen your browser and go to NMC's home page. Click the Faculty/Staff Resources link.
3. Near the bottom, click the link that says Novell NetStorage Login.
4. You will get a security warning regarding the site certificate. Click "Yes" to proceed.
5. Login at the NDS login window, just as you do when you boot your workstation computer on campus.
6. Now you'll be at a web page that will display your network drives. If you see an icon at the top that says "Text View"; that means you're in "Folder View," and you can use that icon to switch to "Text View." If you're in "Text View" already, you'll see the "Folder View" link at the top and you click it to switch. You'll need to know the difference in steps 8 and 9.
7. Once you open a file, you can read it.
8. To download a file for editing: from "Folder View," right-click the file and select "Download." From "Text View," click the "Download" link to the right of the file name. Save the file to your local computer (typically somewhere on the C drive), and be sure you know where you're storing it so you can find it later.
9. To upload a file you've edited (or created) from off campus: from "Folder View," select the directory where you want to store it in the far left column, then click "Upload" > "Browse" and select the directory on your home computer where you saved the file. From "Text View," click the directory where you want to store the file and then click "Upload" > "Browse" and do the same thing.

Please be sure to let us know if you have any problems with these instructions, 5-1044.