Access Home Dir and files

 

In windows

The home directory should be under drive Z.

You can “map network drive” to your home directory using

(Select “map network drive” from right click on “My Computer”)

CIFS protocol:

insert to Folder field:

\\cstb\HOME                        /* for CSM users

\\csta\HOME                        /* for CSA users

Finish – if you are connected to domain with your login-name.

Else, select “different user name” and insert to User field “TD-CSF\login-name” with your TD-CSF login-name and  password, then Finish.

  • This protocol shows all the dot files (Unix hidden files )
  • This protocol does not follow links to another file systems.

SMB protocol:

insert to Folder field:

\\csm\login-name                      /* for CSM users

\\csa\login-name                      /* for CSA users

Finish – if you are connected to domain with your login-name.

Else, select “different user name” and insert to User field “td-csf\login-name” and the td-csf passwd, then Finish.

  • this protocol does show all the dot files (Unix hidden files ) unless specially requested.
  • this protocol does follows links to another file systems mounted on the Unix server.

 

Using SSH/SFTP client to access Unix homedir with SSH from anywhere:

Download and install SSH client   Bitvise SSH Client.

Follow the instructions  how to connect and use GUI to access home dir.

 

In Unix , from command line shell

Perform:

ssh login-name@servername    (servername: csA.cs.technion.ac.il or  csM.cs.technion.ac.il)

After login you are in your home directory:

Perform:

pwd

you should see:

/home/your-login-name

to see all files perform:

ls  -la

to navigate through the home directory tree use the command: cd

For more info about commands cd and ls use “man cd” and man ls”

  • this protocol does show all the dot files (Unix hidden files ) unless specially requested.
  • this protocol does follows links to another file systems mounted on the Unix server.

You can upload and download files from one to the other.