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Homeroom Directory User's Guide

What is Homeroom?
What is Homeroom used for?
How do I map a drive to Homeroom?
How do I access Homeroom from home or off-campus?
Precautions
Backup and Restore

What is Homeroom?

Homeroom is portable disk space for all students, faculty and staff. It is accessible via Macintosh, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, and UNIX. You can access your personal, private disk space on homeroom from on campus or remotely via dial-up connection (PPP) or via FTP or a web browser.

An MNA (MUSC Network Account) is required to access Homeroom.

The amount of space allocated (quota) for each user is 500mb, (more can be leased from OCIO-IS). You can check your use of space at: http://www.musc.edu/homeroomquota/. Note: files in website directories (dept_html) are not counted against individual quotas. It is recommended that you maintain backup copies of your Homeroom files. To have Homeroom files restored (that have been lost, deleted or corrupted, etc.), a restoration fee will be charged.


What is Homeroom used for?

For all these Homeroom services, an MNA (MUSC Network Account) is required. You must apply for one before you will be able to use Homeroom.

How do I map a drive to Homeroom?

(from on-campus machines only)

Mapping to Homeroom from a Windows machine
Mapping to Homeroom from a Macintosh (OS 9) machine
Mapping to Homeroom from a Macintosh OS X (10.3) machine

How do I access Homeroom off-campus?

  1. Through the web: https://appserve.musc.edu/ftphomeroom/
  2. FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
    • Download SSH secure ftp client
    • Connect to atrium.musc.edu, use your MNA user name and password to Connect
    • Upload or download files to your PC or Mac.
    • Use "atrium.musc.edu" as the host name.
  3. Mac OS X ftp connection:
    Accessing homeroom remotely (via DSL or cable) on Mac OS X requires a secure SSH connection such as can be made with RBrowser . Once you've downloaded this really good application, set up an SSH connection by using the following:
    Host: atrium.musc.edu
    username: your MNA user name
    password: your MNA password
    path: /
    Check -- Show Home Folder Only
    use: AUTO MODE

Precautions

Always
Disconnect from your Homeroom Directory when you've finished a session
- From a Mac, drag your Homeroom Directory icon into the trash
- From Windows, right click the Network Neighborhood icon, then select Disconnect

Never

  1. Never throw out a file that begins with a period (.) These are called "dot" files and are crucial to the smooth operation of your e-mail and other programs (files like .pinerc and .cshrc, etc.)..
  2. Never throw out the folder called mail
  3. Never throw away the files ovid.cci, ovid.ini, or ovid.hcc These files contain your Ovid configuration.
  4. Do not let unneeded files accumulate: keep your Homeroom Directory lean.

Backup & Restore

Files stored on Homeroom are backed up nightly using a 30 day retention schedule. There is a fee to restore a file from backup. Currently this fee is three hours at the field engineer labor rate (3 * $75 as of 10/2002).