Data management

This page presents the way to move data between your laptop (or a virtual machine/lab server) and the NAS.

Accessing DCSR NAS from home or UNIL network

 

Note: If you work from home, you first need to connect to UNIL's VPN using Pulse Secure (see VPN instructions).

From Windows

Step 1: right click on Network in File explorer and choose "Map network drive…"

Step 2: enter the address of the Samba server and click to finish

Replace RECHERCHE with RECHERCHE-P in the screen capture below to access the corresponding folder for a project that was created with the personal data flag

Step 3: enter your Unil credentials and clikc "OK"

• username: ad\unil_username  (for example ad\ulambda)
• password

Step 4: click on "This PC" and then on the new network drive

From MacOS

Step 1: open the Finder, in Go menu, select "Connect to Server"

Step 2: enter the NAS url (smb://nasdcsr.unil.ch/RECHERCHE), you also may add this server as a favourite by clicking on + symbol

Replace RECHERCHE with RECHERCHE-P in the screen capture below to access the corresponding folder for a project that was created with the personal data flag

Step 3: enter your credentials

Step 4: navigate through the directories to find your working directory and push/fetch files as you see fit

From Linux

It is possible to use a GUI but there are as much solutions as desktop managers. So here is a way to mount the NAS using command line interface. Don't forget to adapt the username= field in the sudo mount command by replacing unil_username with your username at UNIL (ex. mcurie for Marie Curie)!

Replace RECHERCHE with RECHERCHE-P in the commands below to access the corresponding folder for a project that was created with the personal data flag

# First install the packages
# Debian/Ubuntu version
$ sudo apt install samba cifs-utils
# Fedora/RedHat version
$ sudo dnf install cifs-utils

# In the following, ~/nas is chosen as a mountpoint, but it could be elsewhere
$ mkdir ~/nasdcsr
$ sudo mount -t cifs -o username=unil_username,mfsymlinks,domain=ad,rw,iocharset=utf8,dir_mode=0700,file_mode=0700,uid=$(id -u) //nasdcsr.unil.ch/RECHERCHE ~/nasdcsr

# Perform the reauired operations
$ cd ~/nasdcsr
…

# When finished, don't forget to umount it
$ sudo umount ~/nasdcsr

From MacOS

Step 1: open the Finder, in Go menu, select "Connect to Server"

Step 2: enter the NAS url (smb://nasdcsr.unil.ch/RECHERCHE), you also may add this server as a favourite by clicking on + symbol

Replace RECHERCHE with RECHERCHE-P in the screen capture below to access the corresponding folder for a project that was created with the personal data flag

Step 3: enter your credentials

Step 4: navigate through the directories to find your working directory and push/fetch files as you see fit

Accessing DCSR NAS from CHUV network

Windows and Mac users can install the graphical desktop client from DataExpedition as well if they wish so:

Download Expedat from here, installation instruction from here, and product documentation from there.

Here is an example of ExpeDat session:

On that screenshot you can see: