Getting Started DartFS
5 min read • 855 wordsAttention: If you’re off-campus, connect to the Dartmouth VPN for access to DartFS.
To get a DartFS home directory, request a Research Computing account at Dartmouth HPC Account. To purchase a lab volume (or, if faculty, to claim your RC Bill-of-Rights 1TB lab space), go to Dartmouth Storage Requests.
Run
.Run
application found towards the top of the menu.\\dartfs-hpc\rc\home\x\netid
where x (lowercase) is the last character of your NetID (also lowercase). For example: \\dartfs-hpc\rc\home\8\dz99918
or the fully-qualified \\dartfs-hpc.dartmouth.edu\rc\home\x\netid
.kiewit\<your NetID>
. For example, kiewit\dz99918
.For computers on the TUCKNT & DHMC domain, privately owned, and as an alternate method for all users, download the attached mkdartfsmount.zip
file. Unzip and run the enclosed mkhomemount.bat
script. This will create a custom mount script on your Desktop, named for example d1234e-DartFS.bat
. This script will prompt for a password if needed, then mount DartFS with the correct syntax for an alternate domain (needed for Tuck, DHMC, and privately owned computers) and open an Explorer window.
The steps are similar to setting up your home share, except for the server and path to the lab folder. You may have access to multiple lab shares. The default naming scheme uses the PI’s last name and first initial, but many shares are named differently. Let’s use share KirkJ
as an example. This share will either be at \\dartfs-hpc\rc\lab\K\KirkJ
or \\dartfs\rc\lab\K\KirkJ
depending on the performance tier. It should not be required to have the full server domain name (.dartmouth.edu) but in some cases, it is needed. The full mount path will be e.g. \\dartfs-hpc.dartmouth.edu\rc\lab\K\KirkJ
. Capitalization is important.
As above, a Dartmouth (kiewit) domain-joined computer requires no further input. All non-kiewit-domain-joined computers will require a username (kiewit\NETID
) and password, and Tuck and DHMC computers need to use the attached mount script.
The attached mkdartfsmount.zip
file contains another script, mklabmount.bat
, which will prompt for your NetID (not the NetID of the faculty member who owns the share), the share name (e.g., KirkJ in our example), and the performance tier: h
(high) for dartfs-hpc or l
(low) for dartfs. With this information, it constructs a Desktop clickable script customized for your NetID and lab share. This can be used by any computer, regardless of domain affiliation (i.e., not joined to any domain, or joined to the Tuck domain, or joined to a DHMC domain or privately owned computers).
See DartFS for more information.
dartfs-hpc.dartmouth.edu
instead of just dartfs-hpc
for the server name (or dartfs.dartmouth.edu
as appropriate). If you have tinkered with the DNS search path on your computer this may fix a “server not found” error.10.1.20.67
instead of dartfs-hpc
(or 10.1.20.232
instead of dartfs
). That will completely bypass DNS lookups and also possibly fix a “server not found” error.kiewit.dartmouth.edu\NETID
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Still need help? Email Research.Computing@dartmouth.edu for assistance.