MavDISK

What is MavDISK?

MavDISK is a secure file storage facility and web server for the Minnesota State Mankato students, faculty, and staff. You can create your own web site within your "My_Website" folder on MavDISK. You can then instantly browse to your URL address: http://mavdisk.mnsu.edu/yourusername from anywhere in the world. If you've always wanted to make your own web site, MavDISK is the easiest way.

Back up Your Files to MavDISK

Quotas:

• Students = 2 GB
• Faculty/staff = 16 GB

2GB Storage plus your own personal web site!

Save your notes, research, assignments and presentations to MavDISK where they'll be safe, backed up, and available to you anywhere in the world that you have an Internet connection. Memory sticks can get lost, hard drives can crash, laptops can be stolen, but your important files can be safe and available on MavDISK. Choose the option that works best for you. For more information go to the Back Up page.

Connecting to MavDISK

• Setting up your MavDISK Account. (Do this before anything else)
• Windows (PC) Systems
  • Connecting from the ACC
  • Other locations on-campus using Windows 2000/XP
  • Other locations on-campus using Windows NT 4.0
  • MSU VPN Information
• Macintosh Systems
  • Connect using Macintosh OS 10.x Clients.
  • MSU VPN Information OS10.2 or higher.
• iPAQ Pocket PC
• Linux/FreeBSD

How to use MavDISK

• About the folders
• Publishing your pages on the Internet
• Training, troubleshooting, fixes & related information

MavDISK Special Features

• Off-line Files and Folders for Windows 2000 and XP workstations
• MSU's Virtual Private Networking

Share your files with others

Mavdisk drop box functionality is temporarily unavailable.

MavDISK is great for sharing files. Having problems sending someone files using e-mail? MavDISK Drop boxes are built for this.

Drop box

Using drop boxes

• Drop a file to someone's drop box
• Retrieve files from your drop box

Learn more about drop boxes

• Using MavDISK drop boxes with Windows
  (NOTE: Connecting with Web DAV does not allow drop box support.)
• Using MavDISK drop boxes with Macintosh computers.

Send files to any Minnesota State Mankato student, faculty or staff with an easy-to-use web browser interface. It works from any computer anywhere in the world. Even your family and friends can send you files using your MavDISK Dropbox. Send presentations, pictures, assignments, or any type of computer file. It's as easy as attaching a file using e-mail. When a file arrives in your drop box, you receive an email notification. You can then use a web browser to download the file to your desktop, delete it, or move it to your MavDISK My_Private_Files folder. Listed below are some resources pertaining to the drop box.

Course Folders

When you register for a class, you are provided access to the course folder for the respective class. Professors can place files in the "ClassWorkspace" folder and students can submit and share files in the Documents folder. Course folders are available under your R: drive on campus public computers, by using SSL VPN to open \\mavdisk\msu, or by mapping a drive to \\mavdisk\msu. Classes in which students are not registered are not visible. Class folders remain visible for one semester after the course completion.

MavDISK Related information

• MavDISK group folders
• MSU Web Information
• MavDISK Support Listing