Remote Filesystem Access

The networked filesystem can be accessed from an unsupported system using the SMB protocol. You must connect from a computer on the self managed network or while connected to the VPN.

Server Information

The CS filesystem shares can be accessed by connecting to files.brown.edu and logging in with your Brown account username and password.

Available Shares

The server provides a share for some volumes listed on the filesystem page:

Linux Path SMB Share
/admin smb://files.brown.edu/cs-admin
/course smb://files.brown.edu/cs-course
/data smb://files.brown.edu/cs-data
/home smb://files.brown.edu/cs-home
/nbu smb://files.brown.edu/cs-nbu
/research smb://files.brown.edu/cs-research
/web smb://files.brown.edu/cs-web

Detailed Setup and Configuration

Linux Instructions
MacOS Instructions
Windows Instructions