Storage Options and Access
Overview
College of Business faculty and staff have access to three different types of storage space: An SMB drive, UofI Box, and SharePoint.
| SMB Drive (P Drive) |
UofI Box | Sharepoint | |
| Access to files from off-campus | yes | yes | yes |
| Access by users external to UofI | yes | ||
| OIM assistance with assigning permissions | yes | yes | |
| Mobile App Support | yes | yes |
What is an SMB drive?
The College of Business provides each user with a personal drive to store work related files. This drive is backed up so you have a lower chance of losing data. If you are on your work computer this drive has already been added for you. To access this from off campus refer to this video. Similarly SMB drives are often setup for departments or groups to work collaboratively on documents. The drive uses the SMB or webdav protocol to connect from a PC, Mac or Linux machine.
What is UofI Box?
What is UofI Box? The University of Illinois provides each user with limited space to securely store files in a manner that can be shared with external users or access through a mobile app. The University will not allow these accounts to be provisioned for an entire college or managed by OIM. Therefore you must setup this account on you own with the following directions and setup and maintain the needed permissions. For more details about Box, including unsupported file types, see the Box Sync FAQ.
What is SharePoint?
All three campuses have access to a Microsoft SharePoint system, which can be used to collaboratively work on documents through the web, Outlook or Mobile Apps. To setup a SharePoint page, send an email to oimhelpdesk@business.illinois.edu
SMB Drive
The SMB drive can be accessed through SMB by going to \\cbafiles.cba.uiuc.edu\sharename. Externally this share can be accessed once connected to VPN.
The SMB drive can be accessed through webdav for use off of campus by following the instructions in this video (9 mb mp4).
UofI Box
Step1. Navigate your browser to uofi.box.com and click "Box Sign up page."
Step 2. Select which university you attend and then click "Select this campus."
Step 3. Enter your login credentials.
Step 4. Click on "Create Account" and you will be taken to your box account.
Step 5. If you need to access your files again, simply go to the main page and login once more using your U of I credentials.
