Windows 11
VPN allows remote access to the university's network disks (e.g. U, W and S drives).
If you have not yet set up a VPN connection for your use, please see Installing and connecting vpn on Windows
To connect to a network drive, you need to know the address of the network drive. The addresses of the most common network drives are:
U-drive: \\fileservices.ad.jyu.fi\homes\username
S-drive: \\fileservices.ad.jyu.fi\commonshare
W-drive: \\karahka2.cc.jyu.fi\username
If network drive is missing, firstly restart your computer and try to access network drive again.
After restart connect VPN
Open network drive by clicking folder icon from Windows taskbar.
Then select "This PC" from the left sidebar and from the top toolbar you will find three dots.
Select "Map network drive".
After this select right settings for the network drive to be used
- In Drive(Drive) -field choose letter for the drive (iex. U, S tai W)
- In Folder(Folder) -field type network drives address. In the picture below, the S-driveis used as an example. The most common network disk addresses are listed a little further up at the beginning of this help page.
Tick the Reconnect at sign-in box if you want the network disk to connect automatically and not need to be set up again.
If you don't have a university computer, check box Connect using different credentials.
If you ticked the box: connect with different credentials, program will ask you to enter your username and password in the next step. This may require additional clicks on 'More options' and 'Use another account'. Enter the University of Jyväskylä username in the format username@ad.jyu.fi or username@jyu.fi and the password as normal.
If you get a message that the disk is already in use, restarting the computer will usually help. If not, open the command prompt as follows:
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- In the Windows search box (magnifying glass image in the lower left corner), type cmd and press enter.
- In the black window that opens, type: net use S: /delete and press Enter.
- If it is a U drive, just replace the S with a U.
- Reconnect to the network drive as described here.
Windows 10
If network drive is missing, firstly restart your computer and try to access network drive again.
After restart connect VPN
Open network drive by clicking folder icon from Windows taskbar.
From opening windows click This Computer icon.
In the top bar of the window, select Map network drive
If for some reason 'map network drive'- icon does not appear, click on the button in the top left corner.
After this select right settings for the network drive to be used
- In Drive(Drive) -field choose letter for the drive (iex. U, S tai W)
- In Folder(Folder) -field type network drives address. In the picture below, the S-driveis used as an example. The most common network disk addresses are listed a little further up at the beginning of this help page.
Tick the Reconnect at sign-in box if you want the network disk to connect automatically and not need to be set up again.
If you don't have a university computer, check box Connect using different credentials.
If you ticked the box: connect with different credentials, program will ask you to enter your username and password in the next step. This may require additional clicks on 'More options' and 'Use another account'. Enter the University of Jyväskylä username in the format username@ad.jyu.fi or username@jyu.fi and the password as normal.
- If you get a message that the disk is already in use, restarting the computer will usually help. If not, open the command prompt as follows:
- In the Windows search box (magnifying glass image in the lower left corner), type cmd and press enter.
- In the black window that opens, type: net use S: /delete and press Enter.
- If it is a U drive, just replace the S with a U.
- Reconnect to the network drive as described here.