Student Networked Drives
the Y Drive

Student network drives are now available to all students for storage of email, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other files too large or inconvenient to fit on floppy diskettes. Your network drive will be set to drive Y: on any Windows 95 or higher computer connected to the campus network after you successfully login. Thus your files will be available from practically any location on campus. It is important that you log off any lab or other public computer you use when you have finished. Otherwise the next person sitting down at that computer will have access to your files, email, etc. Don't forget to log off any computer when you are finished using itIf you wish to have your drive made accessible to others please contact the Help Desk.

Students with Macs should contact the Help Desk for information and assistance with using their network drive.

Your network drive will be the default location for email storage when using the College Student Version of Eudora Lite to read and send email. Email will remain in the Eudora directory of your Y drive until deleted from your Eudora trash. Follow this link for more information on the Student Version of Eudora.

Your network drive will be set to a limit of 50MB per student. In other words the total size of all files that you store on your Y drive must not exceed 50MB. This includes email stored in the Eudora directory. If the total size of all files on your Y drive reaches or exceeds 50MB, you will be locked out of your network drive. This means that you will not be able to save any files to your Y drive and you will not be able to use email. Your only recourse in this situation is to delete a sufficient number of files to reduce the total size of all files to less than 50MB. Once below the limit, you will need to reboot your computer and then your Y drive will be available for use again. 

Contact the Help Desk (x4357) if you feel you are being locked out of your networked drive for being over quota.

One final note on your network drive concerns the copying of your desktop to your network drive. If you use a Windows 95 or Windows 98 computer set to customize user profiles (i.e. allow different users to have different desktops), then when you log off that computer a copy of the desktop will be written to your network drive. If you subsequently log on to another computer set to customize user profiles, the desktop from the previous computer will be used for that computer.

To avoid this situation, ITS recommends Windows 95 and 98 computers on campus be set to standard user profiles. To do this:

  1. Choose StartSettingsControl Panel
  2. From the Control Panel, choose Passwords
  3. Click the User Profiles tab
  4. Check the button marked All users of this PC use the same preferences and desktop settings

If you have had a copy of another student's desktop copied to your network drive, you can delete it.