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To connect to Charlie from a PC in your dorm room, simply open an Explorer window (by opening My Computer or by opening an Internet Explorer browser window) and type \\charlie.ac.hmc.edu. To reach your home directory, type \\charlie.ac.hmc.edu\HMC_YOURYEAR\username\ where YOURYEAR is your full graduation year (for example, 2005), and username is your Charlie username, for example jsmith.

To connect to Charlie from windows 2000/xp in your dorm room:

  • Go to control pannel and user accounts.
  • Make sure that you have an account with the same username and password as your Charlie account.
  • In the run portion of your start menu, type : \\charlie.ac.hmc.edu

To connect to Charlie from a Mac in your dorm room:

  • The MicroSoft UAM (authentication management software) must be installed.
    This software can be obtained here. You must be logged into the mac as an administrator to install.
  • Go to the Go menu in the top bar of the screen and click it.
  • Select Connect to Server....
  • In the Server Address text box, type: afp://charlie.ac.hmc.edu (Another possibility is typing: smb://charlie.ac.hmc.edu. However, just as a note, the smb protocol does not fully support all MAC file formats. For example the '.sea' format)
  • Click Connect.


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