Mount on macOS Using SMB
Determine Your macOS Mount Path
- Navigate to the Research Storage Manager page
You should see a Storage Access section beneath each share you have access to.
Copy the path by clicking the copy icon:
Use Finder to Mount
- Open Finder
- Click the Go menu
- Select Connect to Server…
- Enter the mount path you copied in the steps above into the Server Address box:
- Click Connect
Enter Your Unity Credentials if Prompted
You may prompted for your name and password:
- Select the Registered User option
- Enter your Unity ID and password:
- Click Connect
Finder should open to the OIT Research Storage share. The mounted storage can also be found in the left part of the Finder window under SHARED.
WOLFTECH\<Unity ID>
or
<Unity ID>@wolftech.ad.ncsu.edu
Can’t copy because there isn’t enough free space?
You may encounter this error even though there is plenty of available space in your Research Storage location:
Why this may occur
This can occur because macOS may use the size of the Research Storage share’s parent directory when determining if there is enough space.
The top-level directory (highlighted in yellow) for each Research Storage share resides on a dedicated volume that has a minimum of 2 TB of capacity:
/rs1/researchers/[initial]/[Unity ID]
/rsstu/users/[initial]/[Unity ID]/[project name]
The parent directory (highlighted in orange) of each Research Storage share resides on a much smaller volume with only 1 GB of capacity:
/rs1/researchers/[initial]/[Unity ID]
/rsstu/users/[initial]/[Unity ID]/[project name]
How to fix it
To overcome this problem, disconnect from the storage and reconnect, making sure to include a trailing forward slash in the SMB mount path (highlighted in green):
smb://rs.oit.ncsu.edu/rs1/researchers/[initial]/[Unity ID]/
smb://oitrspprd.hpc.ncsu.edu/rsstu/users/[initial]/[Unity ID]/[project name]/