Accessing files on www.ucsc.edu
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- Description
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Describes the various way you can access and edit your web
files on www.ucsc.edu which runs Microsoft IIS
under Windows 2000. We describe how to do it from Mac OS, from
MS-Windows, and from UNIX.
Unit web files on www.ucsc.edu can be accessed in several ways
(see below for platform specific instructions):
- Ftp
(not recommended)
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A ftp server is running on www.ucsc.edu. People can
use fetch on the Mac, ws_ftp on MS Windows,
and ftp on UNIX. Most modern web authoring tools (such as Dreamweaver
provide tools to update web pages automatically using ftp.
- Sftp
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A sftp server is running on www.ucsc.edu, and sftp is
the recommended method to access your web files. People can
use fugu
on the Mac,
ssh
on MS Windows, and
sftp
on UNIX. Most modern web authoring tools (such as
Dreamweaver,
provide tools to update web pages automatically using sftp.
- File sharing
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File sharing has been enabled for MS Windows. See below for
additional platform-specific details.
- FrontPage Extension
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The FrontPage Extension server has been enabled. It has not been
tested extensively by ITS.