Student IT and Printing Resources

Students should reference the Student IT and Printing Resources 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.