This is mostly for DMU students, but this might actually turn into a WinSCP tutorial.

Turns out some people didn’t know they have access to their H drive from outside of the lab, so lemme explain how.

Your H drive is actually stored on a Linux server, where you have your own user. I doubt that means much to you if you have to be reading this, but it’s cool. It’s basically having your own account on the operating system, and you can do a lot more than just host files on there, but that’s all we’re bothered about at the moment.

You’ll need to download WinSCP. Install that with the Norton Commander view when prompted for it. Open it up when it’s installed, you’ll get this screen. Fill it up with your information!

WinSCP login screen with my DMU information in it

The host name is sftp.cse.dmu.ac.uk, and your username is your P number, with the password you use to log into lab computers. Make sure the file protocol is SFTP.

Then press login, and it’ll take a few seconds to connect. Then you’ll get an window like this:

This is what it looks like when I log in

On the left is the machine that you’re working on now (known as the local machine). They’re all your files and folders on your computer. On the right is your harddrive on DMU’s servers (the remote machine). You can drag and drop files and folders from one computer to the other however you like from then on.

Remember though, don’t delete any of the .whatever files. They’re all configuration files for Linux. To be honest, unless you use PuTTY to access the server command line styles you’ll never be affected by them.