Accessing Your G Drive

Every student at St. Mary's is provided with 500MB of online storage space, commonly referred to as a G drive, that is accessible from on or off campus. While using one of the many computer labs on campus, each student's G Drive will automatically mount when you log into a machine. Directions on accessing your G Drive from ResNet or off campus are below.

You will need to download a SFTP client. If you have a Windows computer, a free program, Core FTP Lite, is available at the Downloads page. A free program for Macintosh, Fugu, is also available at the Downloads page. Below are connection instructions for Core FTP Lite and Fugu, though the settings can be substituted for any SFTP client.

Windows Instructions:

1. Click Download Now and save the installer to your desktop and then double click it. If prompted by Windows if you want to run the installer, click Run.
2. Once the installer is running click Next 6 times then click Finish.
3. An icon is now on your desktop for Core FTP Lite, double click it.
4. When asked to make Core FTP your default FTP client, click Yes.
5. When asked Would you like to use notepad.exe to edit all ASCII files?, click Yes.
6. You will then see the Site Manager. Use the following chart fill in the blanks on the Site Manager.
   Make certain that you use the appropriate Host/IP/URL
   
   

   Site Name:	SMCM G Drive
   Host/IP/URL: Faculty: Staff: Students:	facshares.smcm.edu staffshare.smcm.edu ftpstudents.smcm.edu
   Username:	Your SMCM Network Username
   Password:	Your SMCM Network Password

   
   
7. Make sure the box marked marked SSH/SFTP is checked.
8. Click Connect.
9. You will be prompted, to accept the servers key, click Yes.
10. You are now connected.