Tutorial: SIT – SFTP

Chris Leong on Apr 18th 2008

Instructions on how to access the files in your SIT home directory from your own computer.

You will need an SFTP client.

Windows: FileZilla

Mac OSX: Cyberduck

All Linux distros should be able to connect by SFTP without additional software. Try typing sftp://user@host into the location bar of the file manager.
Connnect using

Host: ftp.ug.it.usyd.edu.au
Username Your SIT username
Password: Your SIT password
Port: 22
Protocol: SFTP

Make sure you connect using SFTP (port 22) rather than FTP (port 21). FTP is very insecure and will transmit your username and password unencrypted over the network.

With any of the above clients you should be able to bookmark the URL so you don’t have to type the hostname every time. Once again, make sure you choose SFTP for security. You can optionally save the password locally.

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One Response to “Tutorial: SIT – SFTP”

  1. Lynden Nov 3rd 2008 at 03:52 pm 1

    Just thought I’d mention the program I use (on windows), Dokan SSHFS, which lets you connect to your university directory over SSH and set up drive on your computer which is your university directory acting like it is a local drive.

    To get it, you need to go to the following link, get the Dokan library and also Dokan SSHFS. This apparently also requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Packag, and there is a link to that on the page as well.
    http://dokan-dev.net/en/download/

    There are some issues using things like eclipse etc over the system (randomly refuses to recognise workspaces, just import again and its fine), and it doesn’t seem possible to run executables from the drive, which I guess makes some sense.

    Good luck & happy working from home,
    Lynden

    p.s. Perhaps someone wants to turn this into a tutorial of its own or would like me to do it?

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