Employee Access to Network Files

Accessing UFV network files on a UFV campus

• Use your computer username and password to log into a UFV computer
• Your username is usually the first 7 characters of your last name plus your first initial, but will not exceed 8 characters
• The IT Services Help Desk will provide your initial password
• When you log in for the first time, you are required to change your password (minimum 6 characters) and you must do this while on campus
• Please save your work to a network drive instead of to your C: drive in case of hardware failure
• While on campus, you will have access to the following UFV network drives
  • F: drive personal storage
  • G: drive department storage
  • H: drive UFV campus-wide storage
  • Instructors only will also have access to Q: drive instructor network storage (student read-only access)
• If you are an instructor, please also refer to For Instructors for more information

Accessing files off campus

Microsoft Network Users

If you have had your workstation network files migrated from Novell to Microsoft, please follow the FileWay directons for remote file access.

Novell Users

Instructors: Please also refer to For Instructors for more information

• While not on campus, staff and faculty have access to their UFV network drives through the internet by either of these two methods (login using your Novell username and password - how you would log into your computer at work:
  • Go to my.ufv.ca, choose Online Services page tab and then choose UFV Network Files
  • Go to gw.ufv.ca/NetStorage/
• Some or all of these network drives will be available to you, and you will be able to upload/download files as needed through the internet:
  • DriveG@DEPT department drive
  • DriveH@PUBLIC campus-wide shared storage space
  • Home@UFV employee personal storage (also known as F:\Drive)
  • DriveQ@USERS instructor network drive (teaching files—student read-only access)
• Working with Novell files remotely
• To select a file, click in the box to the left of a file (a check mark will appear in the box)
  • Choose to either open (view the file), download a file (save a file from the network it to your computer), or to upload a file (copy a file from your computer to the network)
  • If you choose more than one file to work with at a time, NetStorage will compress the files into one zipped file