Student Server changes Monday January 3rd

We will move the Student document storage to a new server over the break.
This will allow students to have Windows roaming user profiles and Macintosh
home directories, which automatically connect them to their private
"documents" folder on login, and will save their user preferences to be
accessed by any machine in the College.

These features were available to students in Fall 2003/Spring 2004 but were non-functional when ITS created student accounts in August 2004 which necessitated students connecting to Mercury manually.

On Monday evening January 3, 2005 we need to disconnect all Document storage
for students and faculty staff and power off the server Mercury. This will
not occur until 5PM on Monday. We ask that everyone log off any computers
they use prior to 5pm on January 3rd. If you absolutely must work past 5PM
you need to contact us well ahead of time to make arrangements.

We fully expect to have faculty and staff access to Mercury available within
a few minutes after the power down, but we ask that no one expect access to
staff files before Tuesday morning, January 4th. Students should not expect
access until Wednesday January 5th.

Student files will move to a new server named Bacchus. At some point on
Tuesday, students will be able to manually connect to Bacchus\Students in
the same fashion they connect currently to Mercury\Students. By the end of
Tuesday we will have all student accounts modified to point their roaming
user profiles (for Windows) and home directories (Macintosh and Windows) to
Bacchus.

Students: at that time you will be able to login to any Windows computer in
the College and see a drive letter Z: - this is your home directory. Inside
that you should create (if it doesn't already exist) a folder named
Documents. After the Macintosh computers in labs and classrooms are updated
during the week of January 3 to January 7th, when you login to a Macintosh
your documents icon in the Finder will point to this same Documents folder
in your home directory on our server Bacchus.

We will allocate 850MB of storage to students on Bacchus. You can find out
your disk usage:
From a Windows machine - open My Computer, click once on the Drive Z: - in
the lower left of that window you should see "Free space xxx MB Total Space
850 MB" , or right click the drive letter Z and choose properties.
From a Macintosh - in the Finder click once on the home icon (it will have
your login name below the icon) - at the bottom of the finder window you
will see "xx items, YYY MB free" You can also AppleKey + I - to get
information, which will show you the space you are using.

If you are working in a lab with a monitor - they will assist you with any
questions regarding your storage space.

We will post more information on the transition and will list our progress
on January 3rd and 4th on our web page

Information posted by Chris Conklin, 12/15/2004 10:21:44 PM.