Home Directories
Baskin Engineering provides home directories for each user. User home directory quotas are based on the type of user account and are documented below:
| Type | Quota |
|---|---|
| Faculty | 60 GB |
| Adjunct Faculty | 40 GB |
| Emeritus Faculty | 60 GB |
| Lecturer | 40 GB |
| Staff | 8 GB |
| Researcher | 8 GB |
| Grad | 8 GB |
| Undergrad | 2 GB |
| Guest | 1 GB |
| Service Account | 1 GB |
| Alumni | 500 MB |
Home directory quotas cannot be increased. If you have more data than can fit in your home directory, you need a projects disk.
Projects Disks
Projects disks are available for research needs by request and per storage availability.
UPDATE: As of July 1, 2022:
- Research project disks will no longer be subject to recharge fees
- Requests for new project disks will be paused until a new file system infrastructure becomes available in 2022-2023 (please send requests for exceptions to arossi@ucsc.edu)
Accessing Home Directories and/or Projects Disks
Home directories are made available on all supported Linux/UNIX servers via NFS and can also be accessed over CIFS (Windows File Sharing).
CIFS access to home directories is available on the campus network but requires use of the UCSC VPN service in order to use it from off-campus.
Note that if your Baskin Enginering account credentials are not accepted by the CIFS servers, you may need to update your password at the Account Management. You can reuse your current password. Going through the password change process makes sure that your password is set correctly in all of our systems.
Linux/UNIX (Supported Systems)
On Baskin Engineering supported Linux and UNIX servers, you can access your home directory using the following command:
cd ~
You can access projects disks using the following command:
cd /projects/<project name>
Where <project name> is the name assigned to your projects disk. Note that home directories and projects disks are mounted automatically when you first try to access them. If you use the mount command, you will not see your projects disk mounted until you attempt to access one or more files in the projects disk.
Windows (All Editions Except Windows 10 Home)
If you are off campus, make sure you are connected to the UCSC VPN service. If you are on campus with a portable device, make sure that you are connected to the Eduroam wireless network (these shares are inaccessible via the UCSC-Guest wireless network).
Open a run prompt from the Start menu or by pressing the WinKey + R key combination. In the run prompt, type:
\\samba-01.soe.ucsc.edu
and press enter or click Ok. You should be prompted for your credentials. Enter your user name in the format "username@ad.soe.ucsc.edu" and your Baskin Engineering account password. Once you have successfully authenticated, you should see a list of available shares including your own home directory.
Windows 10 Home
If you are off campus, make sure you are connected to the UCSC VPN service. If you are on campus with a portable device, make sure that you are connected to the Eduroam wireless network (these shares are inaccessible via the UCSC-Guest wireless network).
Microsoft made a change to the Home version of Windows which prevents users from listing available shares on a CIFS server. Therefore, you must know the name of the share you are connecting to without browsing for it. For home directories, you should open a run prompt from the Start menu or by pressing the WinKey + R combination. In the run prompt, enter:
\\samba-01.soe.ucsc.edu\username
for your home directory, or
\\samba-01.soe.ucsc.edu\share-name
for a collaborative share.
Macintosh
If you are off campus, make sure you are connected to the UCSC VPN service. If you are on campus with a portable device, make sure that you are connected to the Eduroam wireless network (these shares are inaccessible via the UCSC-Guest wireless network).
Click on the desktop background or open a Finder window so that you see the "Go" option in the menu bar. Click "Go", "Connect to Server" and you will be prompted for an address. Type the following URL and press enter:
smb://samba-01.soe.ucsc.edu
You can click the + button to add the address to your list of favorites so that you do not have to type the address each time. After pressing enter you should be prompted for your credentials. Enter your user name in the format "username@ad.soe.ucsc.edu" and your Baskin Engineering account password. Once you have successfully authenticated, you should see a list of available shares including your own home directory.