- Start the software
On the CNS system you click on the start menu and find the
application. It will be at
Start | All Programs | Internet | Secure File Transfer (WinSCP)
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A window divided in two (right and left) should appear. On the
left will be a hierarcy of choices and on the right a set of
stored session names.
- Set the interface preference to Explorer-like
Click on the preference option in the left half of the window.
You will have two choices— Norton Commander
and Explorer like. Choose
Explorer like. After doing so, click on the
stored sessions choice on the left half of the
window. The list of stored sessions should reappear.
- Launch a session (or create and launch a session)
You will want to select one of the stored Cowboy
sessions. It should not matter which one, but some servers will
be busy and you may not get through. Just select a different one
by double clicking on the name.
A window should appear with the name of the server already entered
and a place for you to enter your username and password. Do so.
After typing your username and password in the appropriate boxes
you merely press the enter/return key or click on the
Login button. The first time you use a server
you may be notifed that the server cannot be authenticated and
asked if you wish to continue. Click Yes.
A window should appear and it should contain the files and
directories in the "remote" directory. The window should be
titled Cowboy.cns.uni.edu (bebop) - WinSCP. (Instead of
bebop, you might get faye or jet or
julia or spike depending on
which session you used. In the discussion below this window is
referred to as the remote/WinSCP window.
If you are using WinSCP on your home machine you probably will
not have any stored sessions. You can define your own by
clicking on sessions in the left half of the screen and
the New button in right half of the screen. A window will
appear in which you can type the hostname, e.g., bebop.cns.uni.edu
(or faye.cns.uni.edu, jet.cns.uni.edu,
julia.cns.uni.edu, or spike.cns.uni.edu). Make
sure the port selected is 22 and then click on the
Save button. After that you should be able to double
click on this newly stored session and enter your username
and password as indicated above.
- Bring up a window for the "local" directory
The "local" directory is whatever is on your My Computer.
From the start menu select My Computer. A window will
appear and from it you can access your floppy or zip drive or
a flash disk or your hard drive (your Z: drive on the CNS system).
- Find the appropriate directories
Set the remote or WinSCP window to show the directory you wish
to copy a file into. If you need to create the directory
first, set the window to show the directory in which you wish the
new directory to appear and then click on the
Create directory icon or menu, give the directory a
name, and set the window to show that directory. Then find the
directory in the local window that contains the file you wish to
transfer.
- Drag and drop the file from your local window to your remote/WinSCP
window. When you do so, a window will appear with the file name,
e.g., user/east/web/"." (actually the quotes are little
tiny x's or something) and allow you the opportunity
to change the name by substituting another file name for the
period and x's. If you want the file to have the same name as on
the local machine change nothing. When you have the name you
want click on the Copy button.
- If you wish, set the file permissions
WinSCP allows you to check and set permissions. To do so,
highlight the file in the remote/WinSCP window and click on the
Properties icon/menu-command. Then set the permissions.
Numerically, files should have 644 as the permission value
and directories/folders should have 711. Enter the
appropriate value and note what permissions actually get set.
- Quit the application
Click on the Window's X button or choose Quit from
the file menu. The remote/WinSCP window should disappear.
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