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. I use the following command

 sudo mount -t smbfs -i 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 you 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 [internal.mcb.harvard.edu MCB internal website]) and scroll down the list of available directories.