Mapping Your Courant Home Directory

If you are on campus and connected to the NYU network with a wired (ethernet) connection for the first time, you will need to open a browser window and register your device on NYU-NET. You may then map your home directory to your computer. Mapping your CIMS home directory will make it appear as a drive on your computer. Registration is not necessary if you are using NYU's "nyu" or "nyu-legacy" wireless networks.

To map your home directory when off-campus or using wifi networks other than "nyu" or "nyu-legacy", use the NYU Virtual Private Network (VPN). Please note the specific instructions for using multi-factor authentication. There should be a second password field, where you will need to type either "push", "sms", or "phone1" depending on your authentication method. Once you install and launch the VPN client, you can follow the instructions below to map your directory in the same way you would while on NYU's network. The VPN client must be running for the mapping to work outside of NYU's network.

  • Locally mapping your home directory in Windows
  • Locally mapping your home directory with a macOS
  • Locally mapping your home directory in Linux

Locally mapping your /home or /web directory in Windows

  1. Open File Explorer from the taskbar or the Start menu.
  2. Select This PC from the left pane. Then, on the Computer tab, select Map network drive.
  3. In the Drive list, select a drive letter.
  4. In the Folder field, enter one of the following (replace username with your CIMS username): \\fs-u1.cims.nyu.edu\username for your /home directory or \\fs-u2.cims.nyu.edu\username for your /web directory. Note: if you are trying to map a directory other than your home or web directory, enter the following path instead: \\fs-u1.cims.nyu.edu\directory where directory is the name of the folder you wish to mount.
  5. Click on the Connect using a different user name link, and type in your CIMS username prefixed with "CIMSSAM\" (i.e. CIMSSAM\username) and password. "CIMSSAM\" should always be capitalized and your username should always be lowercase.
  6. Click Finish and your home directory should appear in the This PC folder under the letter of the drive that you specified.

Locally mapping your /home or /web directory with a macOS

  1. Click on Finder
  2. Press command + k
  3. Enter one of the following (replace username with your CIMS username): smb://fs-u1.cims.nyu.edu/username for your /home directory or smb://fs-u2.cims.nyu.edu/username for your /web directory. Note: if you are trying to map a directory other than your home directory, enter the following path instead: smb://fs-u1.cims.nyu.edu/directory where directory is the name of the folder you wish to mount.
  4. Click on "Registered User" and type in your CIMS username prefixed with "CIMSSAM\" (i.e. CIMSSAM\username) and password in the indicated fields. "CIMSSAM\" should always be capitalized and your username should always be lowercase.

Locally mapping your /home or /web directory under Linux

Simply enter one the following commands, replacing username with your CIMS username.

For your /home directory:

mount -t cifs -o domain=CIMSSAM,user=username //fs-u1.cims.nyu.edu/username /mnt

For your /web directory:

mount -t cifs -o domain=CIMSSAM,user=username //fs-u2.cims.nyu.edu/username /mnt