Engram can be accessed remotely by using the CUIT Virtual Private Network (VPN) service. (More VPN setup details provided here (Limited access UNI login required))
1. SMB Share
a. Ubuntu
If cifs-utils not installed, install them using the following command
$ sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
Create a local mount point. For example:
$ mkdir ~/engram
Mount the share using the following command
sudo /sbin/mount.cifs --verbose -o vers=2.1,user=UNI,domain=adcu.columbia.edu,uid=$(id -u),forceuid,gid=$(id -g),forcegid,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755,rw,noacl //TIERNAME-smb.engram.rc.zi.columbia.edu/LABNAME-TIERNAME /home/$(id -un)/engram
- Replace strings in BOLD with real values, as follows:
- UNI - your UNI
- TIERNAME - locker, labshare or staging
- LABNAME - name of your lab
- Replace strings in BOLD with real values, as follows:
b. CentOS
Required packages
Make sure that the following packages are installed:
[root@host]# yum install samba-client samba-common cifs-utils
which will also pull in any needed dependencies. Note that cifs-utils is for CentOS-6 (or later) only.
Mount the share
Create a local mount point. For example:
[uni1234@host]$ mkdir ~/engram
Mount the engram to the mountpoint using the following command:
sudo /sbin/mount.cifs --verbose -o vers=2.1,user=UNI,domain=adcu.columbia.edu //TIER-smb.engram.rc.zi.columbia.edu/LABNAME-TIER /home/UNI/engram
Replace strings in BOLD with real values, as follows:
- UNI - your UNI
- TIERNAME - locker, labshare or staging
- LABNAME - name of your lab
2. NFS Share
a. Ubuntu
Required packages
apt install nfs-common
Mounting share
Modify the following example for your needs and insert into /etc/fstab file
locker-smb.engram.rc.zi.columbia.edu:/MYLAB/MYSHARE /MOUNTPOINT nfs _netdev,nfsvers=3,tcp,rw,hard,intr,timeo=600,retrans=2 0 2
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