Every user has a home directory.  It is physically the same on Windows and Linux, but is referred to in different ways, which will be described.

Windows 

• Every user has a user directory on H: located at H:\Users\your_userid.  H: is mapped to \\tc.cornell.edu\tc.

• H: is accessible from all of the interactive and compute machines

• \\tc.cornell.edu\tc  is automatically mapped to the network drive H:
  • when you login to one of the winlogin machines
  • when you sftp to one of the winlogin machines
  • when you access any of the compute machines during batch jobs

• Your working directory is set to H:\Users\your_userid
  • when you ssh to one of the winlogin machines or use a remote desktop connection to one of the batch machines
  • when you open a Command Prompt from within a winlogin machine

• Your folder on H: should only be used to store the data files and executables you need to run batch jobs

• User directories on H: are backed up every night

Linux

• Home directories are of the form  /home/nfs/ctcfsrvn/m/<your_userid>, where n and m are respectively a number and a letter.

• Every user has a home directory /home/nfs/ctcfsrvn/m/<your_userid>.  You can reference it by $HOME or ~<your_userid>.

• It is accessible from all of the interactive and compute machines.

• This is the working directory when you ssh to one of the linux login machines or linux batch machines.

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