Graduate students have up to three network drives available. Once logged in with your domain account (first [dot] last [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca) you should be able to see two network drives (M: and R:).
- The M: drive from ECE, which is your main Windows Storage. The actual path to the drive is \\Expo.campus.mcgill.ca\HOME3\ECE\Short_Username. The quota on this drive is currently 1 GB.
- The R: drive from IT Services, which you can use as your backup Windows Storage. The quota on this drive is currently 100 MB.
- How to mount your UNIX home directory on Windows (SAMBA). The quota on this drive is currently 1 GB.
Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Staff have up to three network drives available. Once logged in with your domain account (first [dot] last [at] mcgill [dot] ca) you should be able to see two network drives (M: and R:).
- The M: drive from ECE, which is your main Windows Storage. The actual path to the drive is \\Expo.campus.mcgill.ca\HOME1\ECE\Short_Username. The quota on this drive is currently 1 GB.
- Faculty and staff receive an R: drive from IT Services with 1GB of space for their personal use. For more information please see File Storage and File Management.
- How to mount your UNIX home directory on Windows (SAMBA). The quota on this drive is currently 1 GB.
Manual Drive Mounting
If you do not see your network drives (M: & R:) mounted (or your PC is not part of the Campus.Mcgill.CA Domain), you can still mount the M: and R: drives manually:
M: Drive:
- Right click on "My Computer" and choose "Map Network Drive.."
- For "Drive" choose an available letter from the drop down list (i.e. M)
- For "Folder" type "\\Expo.campus.mcgill.ca\HOME1\ECE\YourShortUsername" (no quotes)
- Enable (checkmark) the "Reconnect at logon" if you want this drive to appear next time you logon to your machine
- Click on the "different user name" link
- For "User name" enter first [dot] last [at] mcgill [dot] ca (or first [dot] last [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca)
- For "Password" entry your McGill email password.
- Click OK
- Click Finish
R: Drive:
Using the same procedure as above, you can manually map the R: drive using this location \\file.campus.mcgill.ca\staff\group#\<ShortUserName>, where <ShortUserName> is your short username and where group# is the number found in the ReadMeFirst.htm file located on your R drive, or on Reggie View Account Information, Home Directory, and ShortUserName is your short username (eg. jsmith5)
Your drives should be mapped and available to you now.