Accessing the Drives on Your Computer

Your SGD Administrator configures whether you can access the drives on your computer from applications running through SGD.

If you are using a UNIX, Linux, or Mac OS X platform computer, by default your home directory is mapped to a drive called “My Home.” But you can configure the drives you want to use with applications. This is done by editing your client configuration file, $HOME/.tarantella/native-cdm-config. This file is automatically created when the SGD Client is installed. The file contains detailed instructions on how to create mapped drives.

The configuration file contains entries of the form <path> <type> <label>, where:

<path> is the absolute path name of the client file system

<type> is either unknown, fixed, floppy, cdrom, or remote

<label> is the name used in the application session

Use a separate line for each drive and separate each of the fields with a space or a tab. If either the <path> or the <label> fields contains spaces or tabs, enclose the field in quotes.

You can use environment variables in the <path> or <label> fields. You delimit these with a dollar sign ($). To use a literal $, escape it with another $.

The following is an example configuration file.

[CDM]

$HOME$ fixed "My Home"

/tmp/$USER$ fixed Temp

"/mnt/win/My Documents" fixed "My Local Documents"

[/CDM]

Note – Changes to the configuration file only take effect when you log out and then log in to SGD.

The access rights for a mapped client drive are shown in brackets after the drive name: (rw)means read-write access, (ro) means read only access.

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