Mounting the MCB file server onto a linux machine

It is very easy to do this mount once you know how.

1. Create the directory which you want to be equivalent to the root directory of the mounted filesystem. On my machine I do this with

 sudo mkdir /mnt/mcb

2. Now you are ready to mount the server. After issuing the following command you will be prompted for your MCB password

 sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=friedm,workgroup=mcb //lsdivfs3.mcb.harvard.edu/Maniatis_Lab /mnt/mcb

Of course you need to replace "friedm" with your MCB login and "Maniatis_Lab" with your lab's mame. The document on Mac and PC mounting says that some labs have truncations in their names, so if you have a PI with a long last name try some variants. If you can't figure out the correct directory, just connect using the PC or Mac instructions on a PC or Mac (available at MCB internal website) and scroll down the list of available directories.

3. I haven't figured out how to get permissions to work. After mounting I can read files off the mounted system, but I can only write files as root. Weird!