The College of Engineering provides several types of network accessible storage. All Engineering users (students, faculty, and staff) along with non-majors enrolled in Engineering courses are given home directory storage. Student home directories have a quota of 5GB. Students also have access to 10GB of additional storage called the "work directory".
In addition, we provide team storage for classes, Engineering groups, and project teams.
Finally, access to central ISU AFS storage is also available.
All students, faculty, and staff in the College of Engineering are provided with an Engineering home directory for storing data. Likewise, all systems in the College of Engineering are configured to use your Engineering home directory when you log in. The home directory is the same whether you are logging in via Windows or Linux.
The server on which your home directory is located differs whether you are a student or a faculty/staff member.
For all on-campus Engineering students, you can access your Engineering home directory from a Windows computer (such as your laptop) using these steps:
Alternately, you can follow these directions to set up a "My Network Place" to your Engineering file storage space.
In addition to your home directory, each junior, senior, or graduate student Engineering student has access to 10Gb of storage called the "work directory". This storage is intended for larger data output from programs such as Matlab, Fluent, Cadence, or Abaqus. Note, if you are a freshman or sophomore and need access to the larger data set, just send a request and we'll create a work directory for you.
To use your work directory for storing output from programs such as Matlab, Abaqus, etc. you should direct the application to send output data to a location in your work directory. Storing large data sets in your work directory instead of your home directory helps prevent your home directory storage (5GB) from being exceeded.
Official instructions from ITS for accessing your ISU NetID AFS file storage space can be found here.
Alternately, if you would like to be able to copy files back and forth without installing the AFS client, you can use WinSCP to access your AFS file space.
Once you have WinSCP installed, you can access your file space with these settings:
Click "Login".
You should now be able to copy files to and from your AFS file space.
Part of the Engineering file storage system includes "scratch" space for all users. This space is generally uncontrolled, but it is monitored for abuse and misuse.
Here are the groundrules for the scratch space:
To connect to your personal scratch space, read this.
To connect to the shared scratch space, read this.
If you are having troubles connecting to any of the different file storage locations, you may need to change the security settings on your computer to match those of our servers. To do this, please download the NTLMv2 fix (right click > save as) and save it to your desktop. After you extract the zip file (right click > extract in Windows), double click the file and select yes when prompted to update the registry. After doing this, please reboot your computer. If you still have trouble connecting, please contact support.