Accessing UWB Fileservers

Information Technologies – Storage & Document Management

To access the UW Bothell fileshare from off-campus, you must first connect to the UW VPN, Husky OnNet.
For help with using Husky OnNet, please visit Download and use Husky OnNet.

Open File Explorer by clicking your folder icon or type in "file explorer" in the Windows Search field on the taskbar, then click on File Explorer.
Select This PC from the Navigation Pane of the window
Click the Computer tab on the Ribbon to change options
Click Map network drive
When the Map Network Drive dialogue window opens, select the drive letter that you would like to use and enter the path to the network folder.
For the Departments folder, select the letter W:
For the Folder path, enter: "\\uwb.edu\departments" without the quotation marks.

Note: If you are logging into your computer with an account different from the one that was granted access rights, select the Connect using different credentials box
Click Finish.
You may see a Windows Security dialogue window prompting you for credentials.

If access rights were granted for your UWB Access Account:
Enter your UWB Access Account username followed by @uwb, and the associated password.

If access rights were granted for your NetID Account:
Enter in your NetID username followed by @netid, and the associated password.

Click OK to finish.
You should now be able to see the network drives that you have just mapped by clicking on This PC.