This article will help you mount your network folders in Linux:

1. To mount your Student drive in Linux you will first need to install the ncpmount application:
   
   From the terminal under Fedora flavors of Linux:

   sudo yum install ncpmount

        enter [sudo] password

   From the terminal under Debian flavors of Linux:

   sudo apt-get install ncpmount

     or

   sudo aptitude install ncpmount

        enter [sudo] password

2. Once you have ncpmount installed, you just need to open the terminal and get use the following signature:
   
   sudo ncpmount -S STUDENT -A student.augsburg.edu -U <username.firstLetterOfUsername.students.augsburg -V student_home /<mountpoint>


3. If you do not wish to type this every time, you could simply create a shell script to run when you want to mount your Student Drive.
   
   
4. Create a file in your home folder named networkMount.sh that contains:
   
   #/bin/sh
sudo ncpmount -S STUDENT -A student.augsburg.edu -U <auggie.a.students.augsburg -V student_home /media/auggie/netshare
   
   
5. This will then ask for the [sudo] password, and then your augsburg password to mount the drive. You can avoid entering the password by adding the  -P argument to the command followed by the password, although entering the password this way is not advisable.

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Last Modified: 2015/03/18