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Computing  Secure File Transfer

Web based access to files

Anyone with recent web browser can now manage their Physiology files, and upload/download files, using the web-based file manager accessable on the Account web page, or by accessing the URL:

https://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/Computing/Account/files.cgi

This URL also operates as a WebDAV service, which allows software like Netscape Composer or the "Web Folders" features found in recent versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer to read and write files in your home directory.

Windows machines: WinSCP

Download the WinSCP setup program and run it to install the WinSCP software. When you run WinSCP it gives you a view of the files and folders on your local hard disk and those on a remote file server, and allows you to copy files back and forth by simply dragging them with the mouse.

To operate on your files in your home directory on the Physiology file server, make an SCP connection to "scp.physiol.ox.ac.uk".

Unix machines: sftp, scp or rsync

You will require an SSH client installed on your Unix workstation to use these methods (Unix workstations within the Department typically already have this software installed). If you need to install this software on a remote system, we recommend that you ask the local system administration staff to download and install the latest version of OpenSSH.

Recent versions of OpenSSH have incorporated an SFTP client, which works just like a traditional Unix command line FTP client. To access your home directories on the Physiology file server, run:

sftp sftp.physiol.ox.ac.uk

log in with your Physiology username and password, then use the dir, cd, put, get, etc commands as normal. See the sftp man page.

All versions of SSH come with a "scp" command - this functions as a drop-in replacement for the traditional Unix "rcp" command. See the scp man page for more information.

Other file transfer software is capable of running over an SSH link. One notable package that you might like to investigate is rsync. An rsync man page is available on our server for you to browse. To duplicate an entire directory tree from the directory "source" in your Physiology home directory to "destination" on the local system, you might use something like:

rsync --archive --delete -e ssh sftp.physiol.ox.ac.uk:source/ destination