It?s the last day of the holiday break and Jane Smith is enjoying her final moments of vacation in sunny California. Later this evening she?ll fly back to Baltimore so she can present the findings of her two-month research grant early the next morning. She sits down to her laptop to add some final revisions to the material she?ll need for the presentation.
But when she goes to look for the floppy disk on which the files are saved, it?s nowhere to be found! The panic sets in as she realizes she must have left the disk 3,000 miles away back in her office at TU.
Although Jane found herself in a sticky situation, Computing and Network Services offers a service that will help you to avoid similar scenarios. And it?s simple to use?all you have to do is save documents to your H: or O: drives, accessible to each faculty and staff member anywhere in the world where there?s access to a Web browser.
CANS has offered the H: and O: drives since 1997, but many might not realize the many benefits they offer!
The H: drive is an individual storage drive automatically assigned to each faculty and staff member when they begin working at the university. Because it is individual space, the drive is just for your use. You are the only person who has access to it. CANS allots each user 500 MB of space, or the amount of space available on about 350 floppy disks.
The O: drive is a departmental storage drive assigned to each department on campus. You and the other members of your department are the only people who have access to it. Each department is allowed 2 GB of space, or the amount of space available on about 1,400 floppy disks.
The H: and O: drives are accessible not only from any campus computer, including Macs, but also from anywhere you have access to a Web browser. On campus, the most common way to access the drives is through the ?My Computer? folder, found on the computer?s desktop. If you are off campus, you can access the drives by using Citrix, found at {http://wwwnew.towson.edu/cans/faculty/remote/citrix.asp}, or by going to {http://tuweb.towson.edu/hando.asp}. Specific directions for using these various methods are found at {http://wwwnew.towson.edu/cans/faculty/compacct/hando.asp}.
The H: and O: drives were recently moved to new hardware. The new hardware provides these important benefits:
