{"id":1087,"date":"2017-10-27T13:33:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/?post_type=kbe_knowledgebase&#038;p=1087"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:44:33","slug":"nx-map-a-drive-from-the-client","status":"publish","type":"kbe_knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/nx-map-a-drive-from-the-client\/","title":{"rendered":"NX Map a drive from the Client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NX can map a disk drive (local disk, network share or USB) from the client running on a windows PC. Before you can do this, you&#8217;ll need to create a directory in \/tmp on the NX node where your drive can be mapped.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">$ mkdir \/tmp\/NX-$USER\r\n$ chmod 0700 \/tmp\/NX-$USER<\/pre>\n<p>The first line creates the directory and the second changes the permissions of the directory, so only you can read, write and list the directory. 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