This article will help faculty and staff connect to your network drive (e.g. u:\\ ) from off-campus or a device that's not joined to our domain. Students should consult MyGoogleDrive.
Before You Start
You will need the following before you can complete this task:
- A Wharton account
- An active Faculty, Staff, PhD, or Temp Staff PennKey affiliation,
- The path to your network drive
Windows
- If you are off campus, first connect to FortiClient or GlobalProtect's sra.upenn.edu connection. Here are instructions to do so - VPN Guide.
- Open File Explorer from the taskbar.
- In the left pane, right-click This PC and select Map Network Drive.
- In the folder field, enter the path to your network drive. Contact your Wharton Computing representative if you do not know what to enter here.
- If you would like the connection to the network drive to remain after the computer is rebooted, check Reconnect at sign-in.
- Check Connect using different credentials.
- Click Finish.
- When the Windows Security box appears, enter wharton\<your Wharton username> in the user name field and your Wharton password in the password field.
- Click OK.
Mac
- Make sure you are connected to either FortiClient or GlobalProtect's sra.upenn.edu VPN connection.
- Open Finder.
- Go to the left of the menu bar located at the top of the screen and click on Go. Scroll down to Connect to Server and click on it.
- A Connect to Server window will appear, here you will enter the Network Drive that needs to be mapped. Afterwards, you'll be prompted to put in your credentials. This will be your PennKey username followed by your Wharton password.
- Click the + to add network drive file path to the list of Favorite Servers on your device.
- If you have multiple network drive folders, you will be able to select which volumes you would like to mount and connect to.
- Click OK.
If you run into any errors while attempting to access this, please Contact your Wharton Computing representative.
Questions?
Contact: Wharton Computing