Connecting to Middfiles or Miisfiles

Middfiles is the home of classes folders, where students and faculty can share files with each other. Departmental shared folders reside on Middfiles as well. More info is available about the contents and structure of Middfiles.

To connect to Middfiles from the Middlebury campus, follow the instructions appropriate to your operating system:

If you're off-campus, you'll need to use one of our options for off-campus access.

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If user is on MacOS, change connection string to smb://middfiles.middlebury.edu instead of cifs://
Add user to VPNMTU group, and have user "refresh connection" on global protect app.
If connection issues still exists, make changes to turn of multichannel smb:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212277
Also make this change to SMB browsing:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209
How to use course folders on MiddFiles
This page has specific instructions for connecting to and using file servers in the Macintosh OSX operating system. You may be looking for Windows instructions, or our description of Middfiles.
This page has specific instructions for connecting to and using file servers in the Windows operating system. You may be looking for Macintosh instructions, or our description of Middfiles.
Cloud storage services such as Microsoft OneDrive (and SharePoint) or Google Drive (and Shared Drives) are commonly used instead of Middfiles.