Using FTP on the IT Center Servers

FTP file transfer services are available for the servers operated by the IT Center -- including Gore, Osler and the Cluster System.

Your access to these systems is authenticated through the campus Netware Directory Services (NDS) tree; aka the "UFL tree".

The UFL tree provides us with way to offer access to anyone who works in a department that is part of the UFL tree using their regular login account. It also makes it possible to grant users outside of these departments to access files on our servers via Gatorlink accounts because these IDs are replicated into the UFL tree.

Please contact your departmental computing coordinator or the IT Center if you have any questions about the appropriate access strategy for your needs.

Guest and Anonymous access are presently unavailable. Please contact the IT Center if you have a need to implement this type of access for your customers.

If you are a IT Center customer, you can attach in the following ways:

Using an FTP client:
Address:       ftp.med.ufl.edu
User ID:        your fully described UFL tree User ID or NDS Gatorlink ID as the case may be
Password:    your UFL tree or Gatorlink password as the case may be

See Using WS-FTP for a graphical representation of this process.

Using a Web Browser:

The User ID is your fully described UFL Tree user ID or Gatorlink ID as the case may be.

Example #1 -- a customer having an account in the Dean's Office would have an ID in the format as follows:

Example #2 -- a customer authenticating with their Gatorlink account should format their ID as follows:

Upon successful login, users with a UFL tree home folder will be placed in that folder by default. Users without a home folder (including all users authenticated via Gatorlink) will find themselves in //ncs_one_web_server/web/www.med.ufl.edu/public (a public folder on the volume hosting web content). From there you can navigate in a folder environment similar to the Windows Explorer or Network Neighborhood. 

We have seen an anomaly in older versions of WS-FTP where it does not allow navigation around folders that have spaces in their names. If you have this problem, please obtain a newer version of the program from your coordinator or from the WS-FTP page at the UF SODA Shoppe.

Most ftp clients have the ability to target a specific host directory on login. Many users have found that this makes it much easier get into a recognizable area of the server with subsequent logins - it substantially reduces the amount of bouncing up and down in the directory structure you need to do if you go to the same place for most of your ftp transfers.

Please read our disclaimer and permitted use statement.
Doc rev September 12, 2001

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