Accessing your files
If you are on campus (and connected to ResNet), you may access your files on VU using any of the following methods. If you are not on campus, Secure FTP is the only available option.
Personal website publishers: Remember, your website's files are within the public_html folder in your account storage space. If you don't have such a folder, run the vu-mkweb command via the shell. If you maintain websites on behalf of other Union organizations, look in your account space for a folder with your organization's name. If you don't have such a folder, run the vu-lnweb command via the shell. (Finally, if you're looking for guidance on how to get started with making websites, we suggest you check out a place like w3schools.com).
Plain FTP
Connect to address or host fey.vu.union.edu. If you supply your account login information, you may access your personal files. You may also connect anonymously to browse our software mirror. (Directions with pictures)
Secure FTP
Connect to address or host users.vu.union.edu using your VU account username/password. Any SFTP client, such as WinSCP (for Windows) or Fugu (for Mac) will work. (Directions with pictures)
Windows Networking
On Windows or Mac OS X, simply connect to the address: \\samba.vu.union.edu\yourUserName inside Windows Explorer or Mac Finder. Under most cases, you should be able to just type this right into the "Address" bar. You may have to use the "Connect to Server" feature in Mac OS X. (Directions with pictures)
Alternative Solutions
Under certain circumstances, NFS, WebDAV, forwarded SMB, are or can be made available. Linux users may take advantage of SSHFS (via FUSE) to access the VU file system remotely and mount it in the local file system.
To use NFS, you must bring your equipment into the VU room; at this time we do not make NFS shares available to the Union College network.
WebDAV can be made available to users upon request, though it is not a feature that we are currently managing for all users.
To use the Windows Networking method while not being connected to ResNet, you can set up an SSH tunnel on users.vu.union.edu between a local loopback adapter on your machine, and samba.vu.union.edu:139. For details on this approach, see Jan Keijser's article.