Introductory Note 832 Accessing Your University ... - Cardiff University

2 Computer Science & Informatics: Introductory Note 832
1 Accessing Files Remotely from Linux
1.1 Why Access Files
Files on the School’s fileservers can be accessed from the University Campus network,
the wireless network, home, Halls of Residence or elsewhere on the Internet.
You may want to access files so that you can download them to continue working, so
that you can upload completed work, or simply to back-up work from your own PC or
laptop.
1.2 Fileservers and Files
Students in the School will use Windows PCs, and Linux and Macintosh systems.
They also have a “Users” and a “Project” web site.
So you have five different filespaces:
• for Windows - your Windows home directory which appears as the H: drive
when you log in to one of the University’s Microsoft Windows PCs on the Novell
network.
• for Linux - directory /home/scmxxx. Each user, scmxxx, has a home directory
which is seen as /home/scmxxx when they log in to one of the School’s Linux
systems.
• for Macintoshes - the user’s home directory. This appears as the home icon in
the Finder when the user logs into one of Macintoshes in the School’s laboratory.
• for the Users site - the filespace associated with your Users web pages.
• for the Project site - the filespace associated with your Project web pages.
For remote access, we have four gateway fileservers - driveh, home, machome and
websites (which is used to access files on both Project and Users web servers).
So choose the fileserver corresponding to whichever filespace you want to access:
• to access your H: drive - your Novell Windows home directory, connect to fileserver
driveh.cs.cf.ac.uk.
• to access directory /home/scmxxx - your Linux network home directory, connect
to fileserver home.cs.cf.ac.uk.
• to access your Macintosh home directory, connect to fileserver machome.cs.cf.ac.uk.
• to upload or amend files on the Users web server, connect to fileserver
websites.cs.cf.ac.uk and navigate to the users directory.
• similarly, to upload or amend files on the Project web server, connect to fileserver
websites.cs.cf.ac.uk and navigate to the project directory.
1.3 Using Nautilus or caja to Connect to a Fileserver
Nautilus is the file manager application in GNOME 2 desktops like older versions of
Ubuntu and Fedora. A version is also in GNOME 3 desktops like Ubuntu’s Unity, LinuxMint’s
Cinnamon and GNOME Shell. Caja is the same file manager in LinuxMint’s
Mate graphical user interface.