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Accessing SMB/CIFS network shares#

The HPC center exports two filesystems as Windows network shares:

local path on cluster Linux network URL Windows network URL
/gpfs/mariana/smbhome/$USER smb://smb.hpc.taltech.ee/smbhome \\smb.hpc.taltech.ee\smbhome
/gpfs/mariana/smbgroup smb://smb.hpc.taltech.ee/smbgroup \\smb.hpc.taltech.ee\smbgroup
/gpfs/mariana/home/$USER not exported not exported

These can be accessed from within university or from EduVPN.

Each user automatically has a directory within smbhome. To get a directory for group access, please contact us (a group and a directory need to be created).

Windows access#

From Windows, the shares can be found using the Explorer "Map Network Drive".

GUI:

right click on myPC add network location or Map network

Text Only
server >>> \\smb.hpc.taltech.ee\smbhome
username >>> INTRA\<uni-id>

win-network-drive-1 win-network-drive-1 win-network-drive-1

Powershell:

run

PowerShell
net use \\smb.hpc.taltech.ee\smbhome /user:INTRA\<uni-id>
check success with
PowerShell
get-smbconnection

Linux access#

On Linux with GUI Desktop, the shares can be accessed with nautilus browser.

From Linux commandline, the shares can be mounted as follows:

Bash
dbus-run-session bash
gio mount smb://smb.hpc.taltech.ee/smbhome/
or
Bash
dbus-run-session bash
gio mount smb://smb.hpc.taltech.ee/smbgroup/

you will be asked for "User" (which is your UniID), "Domain" (which is "INTRA"), and your password.

To disconnect from the share, unmount with

Bash
gio mount -u smb://smb.hpc.taltech.ee/smbhome/
gio mount -u smb://smb.hpc.taltech.ee/smbgroup/

If you get "Error mounting location: Location is not mountable", then you are not in the correct network (e.g. VPN is not running), or you don't have a dbus session.

On Debian, the following packages need to be installed: gvfs gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-fuse gvfs-libs libsmbclient gvfs-backends libglib2.0-bin