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Accessing Collaboration Server

For faculty and students in courses with directories on Collaboration only. If you need file services for your course, please contact Nancy Grant with IT for more information.

Macintosh

OSX:

  • In the finder, choose Go/Connect To Server...
  • Next to the Address field, type: smb://collaboration.bowdoin.edu.
  • At the login window, type in your email username and password and click on the Connect button.
  • Select the department name of choice and OK.
  • An icon called departmentname will appear on your desktop. Navigate to your course directory.

OS 9:

  • Open the chooser under the apple menu.
  • Click on Appleshare on the left window.
  • Click on the Server IP Address... button on the right.
  • In the window that appears, below "Server IP Address", type in collaboration.bowdoin.edu and then click on the Connect button.
  • At the login window, type in your email username and password and click on the Connect button.
  • At the next window, select the department name of choice and OK.
  • An icon called departmentname will appear on your desktop. Navigate to your course directory.

Windows

Use the Start/Run... menu and type in \\collaboration.
At the log-in prompt, type in your email user-id and password and OK.
A collaboration window will appear and you will see your department's directory (along with some others). Open that to find your course directory.

If you are denied access, then you may need to configure your windows machine so that it can work with collaboration. Unless you configure your pc according to these directions, when you log in, you won't be authenticated.

Configuring your pc to work with collaboration

if you have Win 95, 98, 2k, NT:

  • go to http://academic3.bowdoin.edu/ and follow the directions. When you restart your computer, and log in to Collaboration this time, you should gain access.

if you have Win XP:

  • Go to Start/Run... Type in "secpol.msc". (If this command doesn't generate a Local Security Settings window, go to Start/Programs/Administrative Tools**/Local Security Policy.)
  • On the left pane of the window that appears, select Local Policies/Security Options.
  • In the right pane, double click on: "Microsoft network client: Send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers."
  • At the window that appears, select "Enabled" and OK.
  • Close the windows and restart your computer. When you do, you will be able to log into collaboration.

**If Administrative Tools doesn't appear in your Start/Programs Menu, do the following:

  • Right click on your Windows XP "task bar" (at bottom of screen) and at the menu that appears, choose "Properties".
  • Click on the Start Menu tab.
  • Click on the Customize... button.
  • Click on the Advanced tab.
  • In the Start menu items list, scroll to the bottom. The last item is "System Administrative Tools". Click on the first option (Display on the All Programs menu).
  • Click on OK, and OK.

Now when you look in the Start/Programs menu, it will include Administrative Tools and you can complete the steps above.

If you have configured your pc to work with collaboration and your password is still not being accepted by collaboration, you may have to change your password.