FTP Access
FTP is the standard protocol for transferring files on the Web. FTP is used to move files from one computer to another computer location.
Your Server Folder
All students who wish to use Computer Commons technologies must be enrolled at Phoenix College and pay a $10 technology fee, section NC500 #9099 at Admission & Record. You are also given 25 Megabytes (Mb) of storage space with your account. When you log in to the computers in the Computer Commons, your server folder is connected to the “My Documents” folder on the desktop. That means when you double-click the “My Documents” folder on an Computer Commons computer, you are instantly connected to your server folder. All files saved in the “My Documents” folders will be deleted at the end of each semester, so make sure you remove your files before they are deleted.
How can I use my server folder
Forgot your disk at home? You can save your file(s) on your student server folder. What if you typed your paper at home and don’t have a disk? No problem, just access the Internet, type in the FTP address, and save your work in your server folder. Then when you come to the Computer Commons, log in with your student user account, double-click the “My Documents” folder, and presto!! There it is.
Connect to the server
Internet Explorer:
To connect with the student server, enter the FTP address in the “Address”
bar in the following format:
• ftp://stu-home.pc.maricopa.edu/Students
Or click the “FTP access” link on the left.
When you get to this page, an error box will appear. Click “OK” through the
error and go to “File” from the
drop-down menu and click, “Login as…” A login screen will appear similar
to the screen you see in the Computer Commons. Once you enter the information
and click “OK,” find your username in the list and double-click the folder
next to it. You can also enter it in this format:
• ftp://username:password@stu-home.pc.maricopa.edu/students/username
Where the username is your username and the password is your password you use to log in at the Computer Commons.
Netscape:
To connect with the student
server, enter the FTP address in the “Address” bar in the following format:
• ftp://username:password@stu-home.pc.maricopa.edu/students/username
Where the username is your username and the password is your password you use to log in at the Computer Commons.
Uploading Files
Internet Explorer:
You can use the drag-and-drop method.
Using the right-click button, click and hold over the document
that you want to upload to your server folder, drag the file over the FTP directory you
just opened, and release the right-click button. It’s that simple!!
Netscape:
You can use the “File” pull-down menu, which will have an “Upload File...”
option when you have your FTP directory open. A dialog box will open and allow you to choose
the file you want to transfer from your computer at home to your server folder.
**NOTE: It may be necessary to change the file type at the bottom of the dialog box from HTML Files to All Files (*.*) in order to see the file that you want to upload. Then change to the directory where your intended upload file is located. Select it and click on the Open button. When using Netscape in FTP you can only upload individual files. If you have many files to upload it probably makes more sense to use a FTP program that can upload whole directories at once. FTP programs are designed to upload or download files across the Internet.