Please consult the section of interest:

User connecting to a PC in the DEI domain

User connecting to a generic Windows PC

User connecting to a Linux PC on the DEI network

User connecting to a generic Linux PC

User connecting to a PC in the DEI domain
When a user is using their assigned account to access the Department's IT resources on a PC in the DEI domain, by accessing "Computer Resources" they will find their "Documents" folder and a storage unit indicated as "Z:" automatically made available by the system.

PLEASE NOTE: Windows profile data (the Documents folder, Desktop, etc.) are stored in the folder

/home/user/windows_profile

This folder, along with

/home/user/.windows_reg

should absolutely not be removed in their entirety, but it is of course possible to delete some of the files within them.

The space made available to you on the network storage is limited: you might fill it up (a situation commonly referred to as being over quota). The symptoms are varied: program freezes, computer slowdowns, or similar issues.

You can monitor your disk quota situation by accessing a Linux PC and using the command

showquota

An example of output under normal conditions is:

showquota

Disk quotas for user utente (uid 1234):

Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace

Each user of the departmental network, depending on their qualification (with some exceptional cases), is allocated a limited amount of disk space on the departmental storage (NAS) to store their personal data.

The quotas currently in use at DEI are summarized in the following table:

Affiliation group
Assigned disk quota
SOFT limit
Assigned disk quota
HARD limit

Research Fellow
50GB
50GB

Collaborator
50GB
50GB

Every time a user of the departmental network connects to a PC on the DEI network with their own account, they have the ability to retrieve their personal data (or at least a part of it) regardless of the physical location of the machine they are using.

It is possible to access account resources on both Windows systems (DEI domain) and departmental Linux systems using the same set of credentials (username and password). Therefore, it is no longer necessary to request two different authorizations as was done in the past.

The same personal data is now accessible from both operating environments in a single directory, which can be reached via the path:

• /home/user in Linux environment
• \\nas1\user (Z:) in Windows environment