In RFS, what are projects?

In the Research File System (RFS) at Indiana University, you can request an account in a special category designated as a project account. Projects involving collaborative research conducted for a year or longer qualify for RFS project accounts. Project accounts are particularly handy because ownership and administration of these accounts are not permanently associated with an individual's username, but can be changed as needed when participants leave the research team. In this respect, project accounts differ from the personal accounts of individual users.

You can connect to your projects in RFSWeb. Scroll down to the projects folder. Click the folder to navigate into it and see your projects.

For instructions on mapping or mounting your project account to your workstation if you are using the Samba interface, see At IU, how do I map or mount my RFS account to my workstation?

If you are using the OpenAFS client for Windows, map your RFS project account to a drive on your workstation:

1. Click the AFS icon on the Start menu or the Windows Taskbar at the bottom of the screen. In the AFS Client window, click the Advanced tab.
   
   
2. Select the Drive Letters tab, and click Add. From the drop-down list, choose Drive Letter. The AFS path should be set to \afs\iu.edu\home\projects\accountname .

When a project is created in RFS, two associated groups are created to make it easier to manage access to the project space: a user group with the same name as the project, and an admin group with the project name plus "_admin". The user group is meant to contain all the users who have read and write permissions for the project space, and the admin group should contain only those who will have full access (including administer rights) and who will manage membership in the user group. For example, if the project name is "project1", the user group will also be called "project1", and the admin group will be called "project1_admin". The project space will be set up so that group project1 will have read and write access and group project1_admin will have full access.

For information on sharing data and administering RFS accounts, see At IU, how do I share my RFS data with other users using an AFS client?

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