Copying Files to email servers:
(these instructions pertain to users with Windows XP Professional)
Click here to go back to the intro page on backing up your files Did you know that you can save files to the same account where you receive your Barnard and Columbia email? Students, faculty and staff have 100MB accounts on the servers eclipse.barnard.columbia.edu (students) and bc.barnard.columbia.edu (faculty, staff). On the Columbia server cunix.cc.columbia.edu students have 40MB accounts, faculty have 80MB and staff have 20MB. Note that these are also the accounts that receive and store your email so you want to leave enough room for your email, especially if your email client is set up to leave mail on the server (IMAP). One advantage of copying files to your accounts on the email serves is that you can access them from any location in the world as long as you have a device with an internet connection and a file transfer client like Secure File Transfer Client from www.ssh.com. Secure File transfer client is pre-installed on Barnard computers or, for faculty, personal laptops that are set-up by the Barnard Help Desk. If you do not have Secure File Transfer Client you can download it from www.ssh.com, to find out go to the start menu, click All Programs -->SSH Secure Shell-->Secure File Transfer Client. The name may have been customized on your computer or your version may be different from the one discussed here so if you see SecureShell File Transfer Client or SSH FTP and the icon pictured above, you will be able to use these instructions. Ideally, at time of writing, you want a version at least as new as 3.2.9 - open Secure FTP Client and click Help-->About SecureShell to find version information. Downloading SecureShell Client At the time of writing the current
version is SecureShellClient 3.2.9 to download it click
here. Once you have downloaded the installation file, click on it to install and follow prompts accordingly. Transferring Files to your account
on the server The application window is split into two panels. On the left is "Local Name" which should display files and folder on your computer, in this case my desktop is displayed. On the right is "Remote Name" which is the server, right now it's blank because we have not logged in yet.
If you are using a Barnard computer you may have shortcuts to BC, CUNIX or ECLIPSE in the top tool bar and you just need to click the appropriate one to log on. If you do not have these short cuts, you can create log in and save those settings to you Profiles and you don't have to retype it's properties each time.
If you don't have the shortcuts mentioned above, and you are logging on for the first time, click on Quick Connect. This will bring up the "Connect to Remote Host" window.
In the connect to remote host window, type the host name which depending on the one you want to connect to is either one of eclipse.barnard.columbia.edu (Barnard students) bc.barnard.columbia.edu (Barnard staff and faculty) cunix.cc.columbia.edu In the Username box, type in your username. In the picture below, I am connecting as a student to eclipse. Following this is an example of what you should see if you were connecting to bc
Your screen should look similar to this if you are connecting to bc.barnard.columbia.edu. You would connect to your cunix account in a similar fashion with the host name cunix.cc.columbia.edu
Click Connect after you have typed in the host name and account name. A new window will come up with a message from the server, click OK when you've read this. Following this message window, a new dialog box will come up, prompting you to enter your password. Do so and press the Enter Key or click OK. A dialog box will come up very briefly prompting you to Add this profile - an image of this dialog box follows.
If you typed the correct host, username and password. SSH Client will log onto your account. The "Add Profile" window will come up very briefly as shown below. In the profile name box, type a name that will help you identify this setting later.
When you've logged in, the application will become active and now there will be content under both Local Name and Remote Name. Recall that Local Name refers to your computer while Remote Name refers to the server. You will most likely see a folder called mail already in place. Of course, your window will not look exactly like the one in the image below, but it should be somewhat similar. The items under Local Name are the items on your computer, in this case my desktop. You would navigate to the location of the file you want to move, for instance if you want to copy a file that you save in a folder on your C:\drive you would click on "My Computer" click on C:\drive and then click to open the folder containing the file. All you need to do next is click on and drag that file from the "Local Name" panel across to the "Remote Name" panel and you're done. To retrieve this file later, you would just drag it back the other way. Be careful not to drag your file into a folder that you did not intent to copy it too. If you are dragging your file into a specific folder, that folder will be highlighted when your cursor is in the right position to do this for instance above the folder name or folder icon.
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