Connect to network shares on Windows 7 from home

Requirements:

• your ZEDAT username and password
• WinSCP (which you can get here: www.winscp.net) installed on your local machine

This tutorial shows how to connect to your folders home, storage and backup when you are at home.

• Open WinSCP
• Check that the file protocol is set to SFTP
• Type login.physik.fu-berlin.de in the host name field
• Type your ZEDAT username in the user name field
• Type your ZEDAT password in the password field
• WinSCP should now look like this:

• Click on Login
• If you get a warning that looks like this, click Yes:

• After connecting your WinSCP window should look something like this:
• (Everywhere, where User is written, your username should appear)

• Now you are connected with your profiles home folder. It's content is visible on the right-hand side. On the left-hand side you see the content of your own local machine.

• To switch to your storage or backup folder, doubleclick on the blue titlebar where the current path is written, or click on the folder-icon on top of it.

• A new window opens, which looks like this:

• Now you have to manually change the path. To do so, click inside of the path textbox.

• Depending on where you want to go, you have 3 possibilites:
  • For your storage folder type /net/storage/<your username>
  • For your backup folder type /net/backup/<your username>
  • For your home folder type /home/<your username>
  • For your grouphome folder type /net/grouphome/<your groupname> (e.g. /net/grouphome/ag-test)
• After you wrote the desired path, click Ok

• You've succesfully connected to your storage, backup or home folder.