How to access X-drive and U-drive from PCs

For Windows desktops, Yoyo and Managed, the X-drive and U-drive are already mapped when you log in.

This can be accessed through the file manager, or it can be set to mount automatically at login time.

To access X-drive via the file manager:
Press ctrl-L, and enter this:

smb://uosfstore.shef.ac.uk

When prompted, enter your university username, SHEFUNIAD for the domain, and your university password.

To access U-drive via the file manager:
Before connecting you need to know which server your store is located on. To find out, go here:
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/password/crisp-web.pl
Log in, and click on “View University Storage Information”. After some time (yawn), it will show you something like STFDATAxx (xx being a number), use this in the next step.
Open the file manager, press Ctrl-L, and enter

smb://stfdataxx.shef.ac.uk/

(replacing xx with the number of yours!)
Once logged in, go to Home → Ac
It'll show your username, open that, and there is your U-drive..

How to enable auto-mounting of U-drive and X-drive on login

This assumes Ubuntu Linux. First install the necessary packages:

sudo apt install libpam-mount cifs-utils

Sudoedit the config file /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml and in the Volume Definitions stanza, add these, replacing “ac1usr” with your own ITS username, and changing the “server=” to a different stfdataxx server if necessary (find out your username's path at https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/password/crisp-web.pl ):

		<!-- Volume definitions -->
<volume user="ac1usr" fstype="cifs" server="stfdata07.shef.ac.uk" path="home/AC/Ac1usr" mountpoint="/home/%(USER)/U-drive" options="workgroup=SHEFUNIAD,uid=%(USER),dir_mode=0700,file_mode=0600,actimeo=0,nosuid,nodev" />
<volume user="ac1usr" fstype="cifs" server="uosfstore.shef.ac.uk" path="shared" mountpoint="/home/%(USER)/X-drive" options="workgroup=SHEFUNIAD,uid=%(USER),dir_mode=0700,file_mode=0600,actimeo=0,nosuid,nodev" />

Then run sudo pam-auth-update and make sure “mount volumes for user” is checked.

Reboot and log in again; you should see the U/X drives mounted under your home directory.

If you're using a different username/password for logging in, to your ITS one, you'll be asked to enter the pam-mount password separately (every time).