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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On-campus (or VPN) access to Middfiles, Miisfiles, and Papercut printing servers as well as remote desktop connections require a device's network configuration have network access to those resources. Operating system features and/or changes to network settings may interfere with those connections. This article addresses some of the known issues and fixes.
Issues accessing Middfiles from VPN
If user is on MacOS, change connection string to smb://middfiles.middlebury.edu instead of cifs://
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https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212277
Also make this change to SMB browsing:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209
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