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Windows file shares (rclone)

Rclone can be used to access Windows file shares. To do so, the share must first be configured as an rclone remote.

Configuring

  1. Connect to any of the cluster's login nodes.

  2. Run the following command to start the rclone configuration: 

    rclone

  3. Follow the wizard. Relevant info to be entered:

    • name: name of the remote; you can make something up, e.g. blahblah
    • storage: smb
    • host: hostname of server, e.g. campusmp.campus.tue.nl
    • user: your TU/e username; for most people this is an 8 digit number
    • port: leave blank
    • password: your TU/e password
    • domain: TUE
    • spn: leave blank
    • use_kerberos: leave blank
    • advanced config: no

Warning

Rclone stores passwords in your home dir. This is not very safe. Consider encrypting the rclone configuration with rclone config encryption set. This will ask you for a password to encrypt the configuration with. Each subsequent invocation of rclone will ask you for this password, so it can read your rclone configuration.

Using

Rclone can be used for Windows file shares in the same way it can be used for OneDrive; please see our documentation. Be use to use the remote name that entered above, e.g. blahblah:.