Penn Vet has individual and shared group drives that are available for backing up your data and storing large files. These drives live in a virtual PC that can be accessed via FortiClient or VM Horizon Client. After much discussion with Ray, we want to use FortiClient, and not VM Horizon Client to access these drives and files. We have essentially unlimited storage (at least up to a TB or so) on these drives. Here are instructions for how to access these drives, and move data between them. To connect to the Penn Vet drives

  1. The first time you connect to these drives, we will need to link them to our laptops to allow for data transfer. To do so, Open Forticlient, and log in using your Penn Vet credentials. You will be required to authenticate using Duo Mobile.
  2. Next, click out of Forticlient, back onto your Desktop. Navigate to Go, then select Connect To Server
  3. Now, add two servers here and add them as favorites:
    1. smb://fileserver.vet.upenn.edu/users$ -> this is where your individual user drive is
    2. smb://fileserver.vet.upenn.edu/groups$ -> this is where our group drives are, including Moncla-lab and CHMI-data
  4. Now, double click on one of them, and click "connect"
  5. If prompted to authenticate, sign in as a registered user, where the username is vet\\pennkey, where pennkey is your pennkey, and password is your vet domain password
  6. Repeat this for the other drive.
  7. you will now see a new finder window open up that contains these drives. Yay! You should be able to directly drag and drop from your laptop onto these drives and vice versa. You can also rsync between them, with the following: rsync /Users/lhmoncla/Desktop/test-file.csv /Volumes/groups\\$/Moncla-Lab/Louise-test/  . Here, the path to the Moncla-lab group drive is Volumes/groups\\$Moncla-Lab and Louise-test is a new folder that I made.
  8. Once you have done this once, you can then log into FortiClient, and those users and groups drives will automatically show up for you. You can then interact with them, move files between them, and it is very seamless.

for graduate students: This should work inherently for people who have Penn Vet managed devices. The reason is that this was all configured to work with a set of software that Penn Vet IT installs. For people who have Non-Vet managed devices (this will mostly apply to students), this whole protocol should theoretically work, given the following:

  1. You have Duo mobile set up and Penn Vet credentials.
  2. You forticlient installed
  3. They have sophos home installed, which is offered by U Penn.

There are known issues with Forticlient, and if you encounter them, consult the attached Forticlient help guide

Troubleshooting FortiClient.pdf

You can also connect via Horizon Client, but it is very clunky and not really meant for our needs. So we are going to discourage that option. However, you can access Horizon Client with the following steps:Steps to log into CHMI-data or Moncla-lab drives:Options 1: Do everything in your browser

  1. Navigate to: http://horizon.vet.upenn.edu/
  2. Select the VMWare Horizon HTML Access option, and click on Windows 10 Pool. Log in using your Penn Vet credentials. This will take you to a virtual windows machine.

Option 2: local connection

  1. Navigate to: http://horizon.vet.upenn.edu/