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The Universal Scale Storage service provides SMBv2.1, SMB3, and SMB3.1 access. This page documents how clients may access the SMB service on USS. 

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Your client computer must be on the campus network to access the SMB service. If you're working remotely, you may connect to the campus network with the Cisco VPN client to access the SMB service. However, the VPN client will may need to configured with the option: 'allthruucsd' to ensure SMB traffic is sent to the campus network. 

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Mounting an SMB share using Finder:

  1. From the Finder menu, select 'Go' → 'Connect to Server...'

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2. Specify the UNC path for the USS SMB share: 

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3. Provide your AD.UCSD.EDU credentials:

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Linux

The command below will mount the USS SMB share on a Linux host. 

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[user@localhost ~]$ sudo mount -t cifs //<USS>/<SMB share> /local/path/ -o username=<username>,domain=<domain>,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755,vers=2.1,gid=<GID>,uid=<UID>


If 'mount' returns an error stating that you might need a helper program, you may want to confirm cifs-utils is installed:

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[user@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install cifs-utils