Psychiatry Help Desk
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Accessing the Psychiatry Shared Drive

Background

The Psychiatry Shared Drive is the successor to the the Psychiatry J-Drive.  Shared Drive utilizes UW NetID authentication whereas the J-Drive utilized an older Psychiatry-specific authentication system.  In order to simplify our environment to utilize a single credential for as many business use-cases as possible, IT decided to migrate from the J-Drive to Shared Drive in 2024.

To connect to the Psychiatry Shared Drive, your device must be connected to an SMPH network in one of the following ways:

  • You are on a computer in Wispic that has a physical Ethernet cable connected to it
  • You are on a computer that has a VPN connection

If one of these conditions is true, you should be able to follow the steps for your computer operating system below.  Please contact the helpdesk if you need help.

Note, if you were recently granted access to a folder and you can access the drive but do not see the folder in question, please log off then log back onto your computer to refresh your permissions.

Connection Steps

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Windows

  • If you are not on a wired department computer, connect to the SMPH VPN
  • The shared drive is auto-mapped for Department of Psychiatry-managed Windows machines.  Users can find it by opening File Explorer and navigating to This PC.  It looks like the following.

If the drive is not auto-mapped on your system, you can manually connect to it with these steps.

  • Open File Explorer, select the Computer tab, click Map network drive
  • Select an available drive letter and enter the folder path \\psychiatry.drive.wisc.edu\psychiatry
  • If you do not log into your Windows machine with your UW NetID credentials, then check the box to Connect using different credentials and enter your UW NetID in the form AD\NetID (eg. AD\bbadger).

macOS

  • If you are not on a wired department computer, connect to the SMPH VPN
  • Open Finder, then navigate to Go > Connect to Server
  • Enter the server address smb://psychiatry.drive.wisc.edu/psychiatry (Note, you can click the + to add this server to your Favorite Servers list.)
  • Click Connect
  • If you are prompted for credentials, enter your UW NetID username and password