Please use the following instructions to access your department's W Drive or your own personal P Drive from a Windows-based PC.

Note: screenshots here are from Windows 10 and the appearance of these steps may vary somewhat depending on the version of Windows you are running.

Instructions for connecting to W Drive

1. On your PC, open Computer (Win 7 and 8) or This PC (Win 10) from Windows Explorer (Win 7) or File Explorer (Win 8 and 10) and click on Map Network Drive.
   Alternately, you can right-click on Computer or This PC on the desktop and click Map Network Drive.

   

2. Select W: as your Drive letter. Enter the following address under Folder: \\netapp1.ncssm.edu\department\[YourDepartmentNameHere]. Change [YourDepartmentNameHere] to your NCSSM department name without the brackets. For instance "...\department\its".
   You will need to click the checkbox next to Connect using different credentials.
   Optional: If you would like to automatically reconnect to the W drive at login (note that you will need to be on the NCSSM network for this step to work), click the checkbox next to Reconnect at sign-in.
   Department choices: Here are the available department names to choose from: (note that these are not case-sensitive)
   * AcademicPrograms
   * Admissions
   * Advancement
   * Athletics
   * Business
   * Chancellor
   * Clinic
   * Communications
   *Counselling
   * DEEP
   * Engineering
   * HR
   * Humanities
   * IR
   * ITS
   * Library
   * Mathematics
   * NCSSM
   * PhysicalPlant
   * Q
   * Registrar
   * Science
   * Security
   * SLA
   * SLI
   

3. Click Finish.

   

4. When prompted to authenticate, provide your NCSSM username with ncssm\ in front, for example: ncssm\justin.fleming, and your NCSSM password.
   Optional: If you would like to save your credentials so you are not prompted every time you connect, click the checkbox next to Remember my credentials.

5. Click OK.

6. Your department's W Drive will appear in Computer or This PC.
   Optional: If you would like for network shares to appear on your desktop, right-click on the W Drive and click Create shortcut.

   

Instructions for connecting to P Drive

Note: ITS does not recommend the use of P Drives, and strongly suggest using Google Drive instead. For instructions on how to set up Google Drive, please visit this link: Google Drive

1. On your PC, open Computer (Win 7 and 8) or This PC (Win 10) from Windows Explorer (Win 7) or File Explorer (Win 8 and 10) and click on Map Network Drive.
   Alternately, you can right-click on Computer or This PC on the desktop and click Map Network Drive.

   

2. Select P: as your Drive letter. Enter the following address under Folder: \\netapp1.ncssm.edu\staff\[yourusernamehere] Change [yourusernamehere] to your NCSSM username without the brackets. For instance "...\staff\justin.fleming".
   You will need to click the checkbox next to Connect using different credentials.
   Optional: If you would like to automatically reconnect to the W drive at login (note that you will need to be on the NCSSM network for this step to work), click the checkbox next to Reconnect at sign-in.

3. Click Finish.

4. 

   When prompted to authenticate, provide your NCSSM username with ncssm\ in front, for example: ncssm\justin.fleming, and your NCSSM password.
   Optional: If you would like to save your credentials so you are not prompted every time you connect, click the checkbox next to Remember my credentials.

5. Click OK.

   

6. Your P Drive will appear in Computer or This PC.
   Optional: If you would like for network shares to appear on your desktop, right-click on the P Drive and click Create shortcut.

   

If you have any questions or issues with these processes, please contact ITS. 

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