The Information below is intended for UH Math staff and faculty. Although this information may be useful to others, requests for help from the Administrators is only supported for UH staff and faculty. Please do not email the Administrators unless you are working for the UH Math Department.
This webpage is intended to help faculty and staff in the Mathematics Department who want to transfer files from your User Account to any computer connected to the internet. Most of this information is also useful for Linux or Mac users, however the screenshots only apply to Windows users.
No matter where in the world you are, if you can get access to a computer with internet access, you can login to our servers here in the department and copy files to or from the computer you are at. This can be very useful when travelling abroad and you forgot to copy that important MS Word or MS Excel document to take with you. Or, if you want to make changes to some files and have those changes available when you return. Of course, if you have a USB drive or a laptop, you can copy your files onto it and take it with you. But if you forgot to copy any file you need, you would be out of luck.
All you need is your math username and password, and the following information, to get access to your files remotely.
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Look for the WinSCP icon on your desktop and open it.
If you don't it on the desktop, Look in the Start\Programs\Communications folder. If it's still not there,
it may not be installed. Go to the Control Panel and open the Add/Remove Programs control panel. Look through the list for
WinSCP. If it's not there, you'll need to download and install it. You can get it from
here.
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| 2. | When WinSCP launches, it will go to the login screen. You have to login in order to get to the main screen. |
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| 3. | For WinSCP, the login screen should already be up. If not, click on the Session Menu and choose New... | ||||||||||
Then click on the Login button or hit <Enter>. |
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| The first time you connect, a warning dialog may pop up about a new host key. You will have to accept it, if you want to continue. | |||||||||||
| 4. | You will see this window appear asking for your password. |
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| 5. | The main window should look like this: |
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| 6. | Now that you're connected, in the right window pane below the toolbars, you should see your home directory. In the left, local file window pane, go to where you want to copy files to or from the computer you are at. In the right, remote file window pane, go to where to copy the files from or to. Now you can click on a file, or folder, and drag it from the left to right, or vice versa. This will copy and not move the files you selected to where you want them. This is similar to using Windows Explorer, the file manager, to move and copy files. | ||||||||||
| 7. | If you drag one or more files to copy and an error message appears, ignore it and try again. This unknown error sometimes happens on the first copy and usually not again. Ignore it unless it constantly happens and you can't copy files. In which case, email the . | ||||||||||