Have any of you mapped a network drive?

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Hello! I’ve been trying to map a network drive on my computer to the purdue servers. I’ve found the ITAP instructions and followed them (at least as far as I can tell) exactly, but after a long “attempting to connect” period I get the error “windows cannot access \myhome.itap.purdue.edu\myhome\username. The network path was not found”.
For the record I have a windows 8 PC.

Link to the instructions I’ve been following: https://support.purdue.edu/MRcgi/MRTicketPage.pl?USER=&MRP=0&MAJOR_MODE=DETAILS&MAXMININC=&MRNUMBERLIST=&LASTID=32529491&ABN=&GRPDETAIL=&HISTORYKEY=&CUSTM=&MR=336241&PROJECTID=17

Any advice? I assume you could also use a FTP program but I’d rather have a folder right on my computer for easy access. I’ve never done this before, so I’m sure I’m just making a dumb mistake. Any help would be appreciated :smiley:

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From the top of the article:

Note: If you are off campus, you will need to connect to the Purdue VPN, before connecting to your home directory. Please see How do I connect to the Purdue VPN?

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You have to be using the Purdue DNS servers.

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If anyone’s interested, you can also map your computer to itap printers. This will let you print from your computer straight to any print station (like the one in your dorm lobby), without having to email yourself and use a itap computer in between:

Word of advice: Whenever it’s time to change your password (every 180 days or whatever), disconnect your career drive and itap printer, change your password, and then remap the two with the new password. Otherwise your computer will keep trying to connect with your old password and fail, and the system will lock you out for a while.

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Ding ding ding.

Student help desk employee here: install either the Cisco Anyconnect client or use the web VPN.

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Thanks, but I probably should have mentioned though that I’m on campus living in one of the residence halls. Or does this count any computer that’s not in a lab as ‘off campus’?

Either way I’ll give this a try. Thanks for the advice :slight_smile:

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Are you using an ethernet connected from the wall to your computer? If not, that might be the problem.

There are two backslashes in front of the folder address according to the instructions. Your error message has only one. Maybe you mistyped.

Edit: Also, your Purdue username is visible to Reddit. You might want to delete that from the post/start a new Reddit account.

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Make sure you’re on PAL and not Resnet.

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You still have to connect to the VPN even if you’re connected to resnet

edit: accidentally a word

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This is incorrect information. I’m on resnet and have my drive mapped and the printers mapped with no vpn connection.

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Thanks. A friend of mine was trying to help and we couldn’t get it to work. She ended up going to itap and they told her to connect to the purdue VPN first, and then map the network drive. I’ll give it a try later. Thanks :slight_smile:

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I’m on Resnet and have my drive mapped without a VPN.

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Weird. I always remembered having to connect. I moved off campus so I can’t confirm/deny this now though.

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Hm they must have changed it. I thought I had to use the VPN when I lived in the dorms.

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I haven’t lived on campus for…god, 3.5 years now. I never had to VPN from resnet.

Ninjaedit: I used win vista, win7, and ubuntu, all without issue.

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No, ethernet from the wall works fine (at least in Cary).