Publish
To publish information on the FTP server requires three steps:
- Logging in
- Storing data
- Granting access
Logging in
People who want to publish data on the FTP-server need to login to their requested FTP server account, using secure FTP. Use SSH Secure File Transfer (pre-installed on Windows PCs), or use the sftp command on Linux PCs. There is no possibility of mapping a Windows network drive (unlike the webserver).
Storing data
Files and directories should be published in
/home/account/ftpdocs
This directory can be found by visitors at the following URL:
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/home/account
which is visitable by regular browsers as long as the anonymous FTP user has access to your files.
Granting access
Directories and files must be accessible to the anonymous FTP account before others can download your data. Please use the same procedures to set permissions for your uploaded files as you use for publishing information on the webserver.
Symbolic links
Because we sometimes need to replace a full disk (with a larger version), and because we sometimes need to reshuffle things around, we do not support symbolic links in the directory tree other than
/pub/home/...
file
subdirectory/...
All other symbolic links, while they may actually work at the moment, are not guaranteed to still actually work tomorrow.