Using the CCNY Server Space with Secure Shell 3.0 for Windows Created by Doris Grasserbauer

Using the CCNY Server Space with Secure Shell 3.0 for Windows

Created by Doris Grasserbauer – [email protected]

Topics:

1. Logging on to the server space

2. How to create a new folder on the server space 3. How to Transfer Files

o Uploading (copying files from the local computer to the server space) o Downloading (copying files from the server space to the local computer)

4. How to access your Website on the Internet 5. Where to download SSH

6. General Information about the Server Space

1. Logging on to the server space

a. Double click on the icon ‘SSH Secure Shell Client’ or

‘SSH Secure File Transfer.’ If you cannot see at least one

of those icons on the desktop please talk to the lab assistant.

b. One of the following windows will pop up:

Telnet window (remote terminal):

Click on ‘Quick

Connect’

File Transfer window (copying files from and to the server space):

Click on ‘Quick Connect’

c. The following window will pop up:

Type in 134.74.84.6 in the field

‘Host Name’

Type in your User Id in the filed ‘User

Name’. (Your User Id is the

If you see one of the following windows you are successfully logged in:

This window represents a

telnet session, e.g. you are

logged on to a server and the computer in front of you is a remote terminal.

Terminology:

- Server: a computer on the network storing files. - Terminal: a device that

allows you to

communicate with a computer. A remote terminal uses a network to do so.

OR

This window allows you to

transfer files to and from

For your Website you need to create a folder called public_html (all lower case, underscore between the words ‘public’ and ‘html’) in the main folder of your server space. The main folder in this example is ‘gd6789.’

2. How to create a new folder on the server space

In the File Transfer Window select where you want the new folder and click on

Operation

3. How to Transfer Files

Click on the icon for the File Transfer

following File Transfer window:

a. Uploading files (copy files to the server space)

File Transfer Window

Select the folder (e.g. public_html) you want the files to be copied on the left side of

the File Transfer window.

Click on the upload arrow on the toolbar. You will see a pop-up window that

looks like this:

Select the folders and/or files you want to upload in this window and click on

b. Download files (copy files from the server space)

File Transfer Window

Select the folders or files you want to download on the

right side of the File Transfer window.

Then click on the download arrow on the toolbar. You will see a pop-up window

that looks like this:

4. How to access your Website on the Internet

After you created the folder public_html you have to upload your Website (HTML files,

pictures, movies, sound, PowerPoint, Word, etc.) in this folder. The first page

(homepage), which should appear when somebody looks at your Website, has to have the name index.html or index.htm.

You have to change the permissions for all uploaded files of your Website. Per default the content of your server space cannot be accessed by anybody else than you.

To change the permissions select all uploaded files of your Website in the public_html folder (You will have to do this for all subfolders belonging to your Website) and click on the right mouse button while the mouse pointer is on the highlighted files. You will see a similar window:

Click on ‘Properties’

In the section ‘Permissions’ of the Properties window you should see the following check marks:

If you are working on your Electronic Portfolio you will have to use the following address (URL):

http://condor.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/~UserId/elport

5.

Where to download SSH

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application to your computer.

- If you have problems installing SSH please read the instructions ‘How to install Secure Shell 3.0 for Windows (SSH)’ at

http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/education/mmcenter/resources.html

6. General Information about the Server Space

- You will have 20Mbytes available for your Website(s) and other data.