Accessing UBC home folder/ lab files from anywhere else:

This ones for ubc students only although many might be able to use the programs/instructions for other purposes. Anyway, this is for ubc students in the computer science department:

If any of you are wondering how to access your lab files from home here are some instructions. There are many ways of doing this these are just a couple that I have used and verified:


Instructions for mac
1) Download cyberduck from cyberduck.ch
2) After download drag the duck icon from the downloaded file to your applications folder to install.
3) Launch the application . Press the open connection button in the top left corner.
4) Select SFTP from the top pull down menu.
5) for the server type in “remote.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca”
6)under “username” put in the username and you use to login to the computers in the lab. LEAVE THE PASSWORD BLANK. Its more secure to type it in every time and for some reason I seem to have problems connecting if I try to keep the password saved.
7) Click connect. Put in your password at the prompt.
8)Drag/Drop/Copy/Paste/Read/Write/Edit/Delete etc...

Instructions for Windows:
1)download winSCP from here: http://winscp.net/eng/download.php
2)After downloading Install (if you downloaded the installation package)
3)Open up winscp
4)under host name type in "remote.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca"
5)under “username” put in the username and you use to login to the computers in the lab. LEAVE THE PASSWORD BLANK. Its more secure to type it in every time and for some reason I seem to have problems connecting if I try to keep the password saved.
6)Ensure the pulldown dialogue titled "File protocol" is set to SFTP. (Also I left the "Allow SCP fallback" check box checked)
7)Hit login. Input Password.
8)On the left you will see the files on your computer. On the right you have your "z" drive or home folder.
9)Drag/Drop/Copy/Paste/Read/Write/Edit/Delete etc...


Instructions for Ubuntu linux

OPTION 1:
1)Download and install wine (from add/remove)
2)Download winscp (see windows instructions for download link)
3)right click the file and run it with wine...install...
4)Open up winscp from Applications--> wine--> programs-->winSCP
5)Follow windows instructions from step 4

OPTION 2:
1)From the menu bar select Places--> Connect to server
2) Under service type select "SSH"
3)under server type in "remote.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca"
4)under folder type in "/home/(letter your username starts with)/(your username)" (This is your lab user name)
5)under username input your username (This is your lab user name)
6)OPTIONAL: select add bookmark...give it a name... this share can now be accessed under the places menu (no more typing)
7)Hit connect. Input password (You can get it to save your password if you wish)
8)Drag/Drop/Copy/Paste/Read/Write/Edit/Delete etc...