Web FTP access

Brief outline:

To access external web and FTP sites, students and staff are required to type in their "authcate details."  This is known as Mandatory Proxy Authentication (or MPA).

File transfers using file transfer protocol (FTP) to and from Monash servers such as SNG, Monash FTP etc while on the Monash network will work using standard ftp clients such as ws-ftp.

However, transferring files outside of the Monash domain does require authentication. Unfortunately many of the standard ftp clients are unable to do this however ftp will be possible to external sites using Netscape/Mozilla's graphical ftp interface and Netscape Communicator and Mozilla are the only ftp clients capable of authenticating to proxy servers known to ITS.

  Netscape (and our new e-mail program) Mozilla can be used as an FTP interface, to connect in an identified (ie. non-anonymous) way to an external server.

• While you can login with the syntax: ftp://username:password@ftpaddress it is strongly advised that you do not do this. The password you enter will be kept in your history page and could be accessed by other people who have access to your computer.
  
  We recommend that you type the FTP address in the location window in the format: ftp://username@host where username is your username on that host.
  eg: ftp://userid@sng.its.monash.edu.au
  
  
  
• You will then be prompted for your password on that host.
  
  
  
• Once you are connected, you will either see your home directory for the host or the top-level
  of the directory hierarchy for the host (depending on the configuration of the host system).
  Navigate to the directory you want. It will look similar to the picture below.
  
  
  
  
• From this point you can either get files (download) or put files onto the server (upload).
  
  
• To download a file, locate the name of the file you require and double click on the icon on the left hand side of the file name. In this example, the file "sample file.doc" has been selected to be downloaded.
  
  
• You should be presented with a warning screen (pictured below). Note that the filename has %20 included in its name. This is not an error, it is because FTP converts spaces to %20.  Now, save the file to your local computer. You will need to indicate which directory the file is to be saved into.
  
  
  
• To put files onto the server, click on File then click on Upload File.
  
  
  
• You will now be prompted for which file you want to upload. Locate the file and double click on it.
  
  
  
• The file will automatically upload onto the server. Repeat for all files that need to be uploaded. You may need to reload the page (click on the reload icon) to see new files in the directory listing once you have uploaded them.
  

Links

• For more information on Mandatory Proxy Authentication, click on this link:
  Mandatory Proxy Authentication
  
  If you need to use ftp other via clients other than Netscape, please check the
  Software Effects and Exemptions web pages for more information, by clicking on this link:
  Software Effects & Exemptions

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