Network Storage
Accessing Your Student, Faculty, or Staff Network Storage Folder
Students have 30 megabytes of storage, while faculty and staff have 300 megabytes of network storage.
To access your storage folder, you must be logged onto the network with your PC/NT username and password. You can not access your network storage folder from off campus.
Your network storage can easily be accessed by following these simple steps if you have a Windows XP Professional or Windows 2000 operating system:
- Click on My Computer on your desktop.
- Click on the N: drive.
- Your Northwest “S2” username should be listed next to this drive.
Or,
right click on
My Network Places, and then follow these steps:
- Click on Search for Computers...
- Type CATBERT in the textbox entitled Computer Name.
- Two computers entitled Catbert, Catbert Core Server 4 (Stone) will appear.
- Double-click on the one entitled simply Catbert.
- Double-click on the appropriate folder you need.
- If you are a student double-click on Student.
- If you are faculty double-click on Faculty.
- If you are staff double-click on Staff.
- When the folder opens, do the following if you are a student (skip to step 6 if you are faculty or staff)
- If you are a student, double-click on the folder that displays the last two digits of your username.
- Next, double-click on the folder that displays your username. This will open your student storage folder for usage, and all other windows may now be closed.
- When the folder opens, do the following if you are faculty or staff:
- If you are a faculty or staff member, double-click on the folder that displays your username.
- This will open your faculty storage folder for usage, and all other windows may now be closed.
Network storage (Catbert) is backed up every Friday after 5 p.m. If you have deleted a file from your storage folder that you need recovered, contact the Client Computing—Information Systems to investigate possible recovery options.
Recovery is only available for network storage folders and only if the file or files in question were in tact prior to the backup on Friday.