Connecting to a Windows file share

Have your URI SSO ID and password ready.

From an Explorer window, right click on This PC and select “Map network drive…”

Select your drive (U:\ in this example) and write in the folder you want to connect to "\\uri.ds.uri.edu\DFS\WINFS\NNNN" (change to your folder where appropriate).

Check “Reconnect at sign-in” only if you’re not using a shared workstation.

If you need to connect using different credentials.

Check “Remember my credentials” only if you’re not using a shared workstation.

When mapping the drive, you want to use your URI ID. DO NOT use the pin option.

Disconnect a Drive

(only follow this section if you need to disconnect an existing drive)

To unmap an existing drive, right click and choose disconnect.

Command Line

(only follow this section to use the command line to map a drive)

(from a powershell or command prompt)

#delete existing connection

net use U: /d

#map (change "your_user_id" and "***password***" where appropriate)

net use U: "\\uri.ds.uri.edu\DFS\WINFS\provost-aec" /user:URI\your_user_id ***password*** /PERSISTENT:Y