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All SPH students should direct IT related questions via email to SPH-ITSC@brown.edu.

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The School of Public Health offers various IT and software services to its students.

Student IT and Printing Resources

Students should reference the Get Started with MyPrint page for computing and printing information.

For support, please email sph-itsc@brown.edu.

File Storage

This is a shared file server that can be accessed from a local machine as well as through the web. It operates like your own personalized, Brown-hosted "cloud" - so to speak. Students have found this helpful for storing files, having a consistent mapped location to run their code from, ensuring their files are backed up regularly, accessing their files from anywhere, and not having to store anything of importance locally. You all have storage located at \\files.brown.edu\home\USERNAME. To access this, follow these steps:

From a Windows Machine:

  1. Open File Explorer
  2. Click on "This PC"
  3. Click on "Computer" and "Map Network Drive"
  4. Select the desired letter for the drive.
  5. Copy and paste the following path in the Folder line:
    • \\files.brown.edu\home\USERNAME (e.g. jsmith101)
  6. Select "Connect As A Different User" and hit Enter
  7. Enter your credentials with "ad\" preceding your user name - ex. ad\jsmith
  8. Click Finish.

From a MAC:

  1. Click anywhere on the desktop background
  2. Select from the menu -> "Go" and then "Connect to a Server"
  3. In the path, enter:
    • smb://files.brown.edu/home/USERNAME (e.g. jsmith101)
  4. Enter your credentials with "ad\" preceding your user name - ex. ad\jsmith
  5. Click Finish.

These same files can be accessed via the web at - https://webfiles.brown.edu/. Once you log in with your Brown credentials, click on the dropdown box and select Isilon Home to see your folder.

Folder Redirecting

To help ensure that your desktop, downloads, documents, pictures, etc. are available to you wherever you are, these folders get copied to the above location. Please check that your folders on your laptops are also in the above "cloud" location. Again, this location gets backed up to ensure if something were to happen to your laptops, your files would not be at risk.

For all graduate students

OIT Service Center

Find out more about Brown's information technology services

Connecting to SPH printers (PDF)

The printers located in room 251 and 374 are already installed on all student cluster workstations.

Brown software catalog

See what licensed software is available.

Get Started with MyApps at Brown

Brown’s MyApps service is a method for members of the Brown Community to access software without the need for installation. By using MyApps, you can connect to a “virtual desktop” that provides you with core apps and computational software that are available to faculty, students, and staff.

Connecting to Network Shares

Brown provides a Network Home Folder for all faculty, staff, and students. The Home Folder provides up to 100GB of network file storage for you to use. The storage also integrates with some OIT services such as the RemoteApps service.

For doctoral students

Ph.D. student IT information

Connecting to WIFI, VPN, the file server, and more

Doctoral laptop policy

The School of Public Health will provide each incoming doctoral student with their own new laptop computer for use while enrolled in the doctoral program.
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Get help

All SPH students should direct IT related questions via email to SPH-ITSC@brown.edu.

SPH-ITSC@brown.edu
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