Connecting to the EDSServer web server from a Windows computer using Microsoft Windows File Sharing

Connecting when on the UCSD campus:

  1. Start up Internet Explorer. Enter as the URL: \\edsserver.ucsd.edu .
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  2. Enter your user name and password for the EDSServer server (which may be different from your UCSD network ID & password).
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  3. Open your server folder.
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  4. Drag files into or out of the Sites folder.
  5.  

    Any file in this "Sites" folder is electronically published on the web. The URL for a file in this folder is       http://edsserver.ucsd.edu/~yourusername/yourfilename
    (where, of course, you would put your user name instead of  yourusername and your file name instead of  yourfilename ).

 

Connecting when not on the UCSD campus:

When you are not on the UCSD campus, you have to use the free VPN client to establish a "Virtual Private Network" connection before doing the steps above.

Steps for installing the VPN client.

  1. Connect to the UCSD VPN web site at: http://www-no.ucsd.edu/documentation/vpn/
  2. Register by clicking on the link there and providing your UCSD network id and password.
  3. Download the VPN client appropriate for your operating system, which is probably "2000/XP/Vista - 5.0"
  4. Install the VPN client and restart your computer.
  5. Start up the VPN client (by selecting All Programs from the Start menu.
  6. Set the preference "Enable Transparent Tunneling" by checking that check box in "Modify" - see the documentation at
    http://www-no.ucsd.edu/documentation/vpn/ibm/nat/40/

Then you are ready to create a VPN connection. So after you've installed the VPN Client (following the steps above), to connect to the EDSSERVER from off campus:

  1. Start the VPN client.


  2. Click on the "Connect" button, and enter your UCSD Network name and password.

    Then you can do the same four steps described above for connecting when on campus.
  1. Start up Internet Explorer and enter \\edsserver.ucsd.edu in the URL field.
  2. Enter your EDSServer user name and password (which may be different from your UCSD network name and password).
  3. Open your server folder.
  4. Drag files into or out of the Sites folder.