Accessing UMR Student Files

DFS

For the 2006 Fall Semester, UMR IT changed all user accounts from AFS to DFS. There's now a server set up that allows for easy access from an FTP program.

Before you can get to your student files, you have to set up a "Virtual Private Network" (VPN) from your computer, over the Internet, to the UMR server. In Windows this is pretty easy, especially for Windows XP. If you have older Windows, you can still get your files, but you need to upgrade, as there are no longer any security fixes for Windows 9x/ Me as of July 11th, 2006, and those are kind of important unless you know what you're doing with an firewalls, heuristic antivirus and anti-spyware programs, and the rest. If you are familiar with those things, then you don't need these instructions, so good luck.

Creating the VPN Connection

• Click the Start Menu, go to Programs, then Accessories, then Communications, and finally Network Connections.
• Click the File Menu, go to New Connection.
• This will bring up a "Wizard." Click Next.
• Click "Connect to the network at my workplace" and click Next. School, work, close enough.
• Click "Virtual Private Network connection" on the next screen and click Next again.
• "Company Name," is what it wants: Call this whatever you want. If you work for UMR, I suppose you could call it your workplace.
• If it asks about dialing a connection, choose your standard dialup connection, if not you get to enter "Host name" as vpn.umr.edu. Click Finish, and choose to have a shortcut on your desktop if you'd like to be able to connect without having to do the Start, Programs, Accessories, Communications, Network Connections bit.
• Stay in the Network Connections window. Right click on the one you just made, then click Properties.
• Click the Advanced tab. Here, click on the Internet Protocol (TCP/ IP) item in the list in the middle of the screen, then click the Properties button.
• Click the Advanced... button. The first thing you will see on the next screen is , Use the default gateway on remote network. Uncheck it and click OK until you're out of screens on which you can click OK.
• You can connect to this new connection by using the shortcut on your desktop, if you made one, or from the Network Connections window. You will need to enter your UMR username and UMR password, of course - these are the same as your e-mail.

Accessing your files

You'll need an FTP client for this. The following instructions are for FileZilla

• Download the FileZilla Client.
• Once you have the FileZilla_a.b.c.d_win32-setup.exe file downloaded, open it, and follow the installer's instructions.
• Open FileZilla from the Windows Start menu's Programs list.
• In FileZilla, click the File menu and select Site Manager....
• Click the New Site button, and type in a name like UMR DFS.
• On the right side of the site manager, fill in the following information:
  • Host: minersftp.mst.edu
  • Serertype: minersftp.mst.edu
  • Logontype: Normal
  • User: Your username
  • Password: Your password
• Click on the Advanced tab, and fill:
  • Remote directory: /users/Your username, filling in your own username, of course.

Accessing your student web page

• Make a new site in the FileZilla Site Manager identical to the one described above, but replace the Remote directory with /userweb/Your username, filling in your own username, of course.

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