BEA_RES (L Drive)
The lab has PII-allowed UPMC-firewalled file storage through the Office of Academic Computing (OAC). Colloquially, this is the “L drive” as it is mounted to L:\
on Windows PCs.
The directly of the slashes in the address for the file share depends on the operating system. For windows
\\acct.upmchs.net\oac\bea_res
For MacOS and Linux
//acct.upmchs.net/OAC/BEA_RES
Mapping
Windows
in File Browser
,
- right click
🖥️ This PC
on the left side bar. - select “Map Network Drive”
- Select
L:\
as the drive and enter\\acct.upmchs.net\oac\bea_res
as the address
MacOS
Reminder: you must be on the UPMC network, likely hardwire to the ethernet within the loeffler building
See mac guide, briefly
- Finder → “Go” in top bar → “Connect to Sever”
//upmcid@acct.upmc.edu/oac/bea_res/
Linux
For wired single-user computers, it's worth creating a permanent mount.
/etc/fstab
might look like
//acct.upmchs.net/OAC/BEA_RES /Volumes/L/bea_res cifs users,nobrl,credentials=BEARESCRED,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm 0 2
where BEARESCRED
is the the path to a file like
username=USER_WITHOUT_AT_UPMC password=PASSWORD domain=1upmc-acct