Information Systems & Services

Logging on to PCs:
When the PCs in the labs are switched on and Windows operating system has loaded, a netware logon box is displayed. The box contains two areas that need to be filled in manually: the USERNAME and PASSWORD boxes.

Drive Mappings: Once you have sucessfully logged into the Novell it is important to know the file sharing and file storage options available on the DCU network. By double-clicking the 'My Computer' icon on your desktop you will see the following network drive mappings.

Drive H: This is your personal file storage area of 50MB on the network. No other users have access to the information stored here.

Drive I: Network applications are stored in this location. In most cases icons for software contained in the I drive are available on the desktop.

Drive J: & K: The library cdroms Abstracts are held here, To access the library cdrom Abstracts you have to run CDMENUC.BAT on the J: drive, this will then map the Abstract you have requested to the K: drive. There are only a few Abstracts available here as most of them are now available on the web.

Drive N: DCU staff can post files to this drive. Files located here can be viewed by anyone logged onto the DCU network. Information stored here is read only. Your lecturers will let you know where to find information relevant to you.

Drive X: This is a scratch directory that acts as a shared public area for all students. The purpose of the scratch drive is to offer a place where all students have full read/write/delete access, for the temporary upload of files that can be shared between other students. All files stored here can be viewed and deleted by any student, for this reason any confidiential information must not be saved here.
The X: drive is not backed-up and any files deleted from the X: drive cannot be retrieved!
The X: drive is automatically purged (deleted) on a regular basis and once purged files cannot be retrieved.
For these reasons only use the scratch drive X: as a tempory non-confiedntial file share area.