| Why exchange disks or
emails to share files when you can use your IFS space?
Your IFS file storage space can be used to provide files over the
Internet, either publicly or
to specific individuals.
Your IFS space has a
Shared folder and a Public folder. You can set access
to subfolders within these areas (and the files within
these folders)
for specific individuals with uniqnames or for public
access.
Your IFS Public Folder
Files and folders within
your IFS Public folder are accessible for downloading by
anyone who knows the address. This is the easiest
method to share files, both for set up and access by
others. While anyone can access the files who
knows the address, based on your uniqname and subfolder
name, you can have some degree of control by not sharing
the address except with those who you want to access it.
- Create a subfolder
inside of your IFS/Public folder. Do not create a
home.htm(l) or index.htm(l) page for this folder.
- Provide others with
the address http://www.umich.edu/~your uniqname/sub
folder name.
- In the Web browser,
those who enter this address will receive a listing
of all of the files in this subfolder. They can right
click on a file they want in the list and save the
file to their computer.
Note: Be sure the
folder does not contain a file named home.htm(l) or
index.htm(l) page, or the web page will appear rather
than the file listing.
Your IFS Shared Folder
Files within your IFS
Shared subfolder allow you to set specific control over
which individuals can access the files at what level
(read, write, upload other files to the folder, etc.).
To provide access to this area, you set up an Access
Control List for each person using their uniqname. If
your group or team has changing members, you can set up
a private "protection group" name then set up a single
ACL for the whole group. Members are then added
and removed from the group rather than from the ACL.
Instructions to set up
and manage Access Control Lists for your IFS space are
at
http://www.itd.umich.edu/itcsdocs/s4111/.
Instructions for
Protection Groups (similar to e-mail groups but for
controlling IFS access) are at http://www.itd.umich.edu/itcsdocs/s4033/.
Others can access your
Shared folder using an SFTP program or the
http://mfile.umich.edu
website by logging into their own IFS space then
navigating to your folder following the path /first
letter of your uniqname/second letter of your
uniqname/your uniqname.
Your IFS Private Folder
All of the files that
you want to keep private and secure should be saved
inside of your Private folder. Files and folders
within the root directory of your IFS space, while not
able to be opened or downloaded by others, are visible
to others in the directory listing as they navigate from
your IFS space into your Shared folder.
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