OIT Help Desk
Using NWFTP to access your Novell Home Directory
New instructions for ftp'ing to/from the Netware servers (amber, pearl, scifac, befac, and ruby) have been developed. Although old instructions are no longer valid for amber and pearl, they may currently work for some of the other servers. However, we encourage using these new instructions for ALL servers.
The new service is supported through a special ftp service hosted by nwftp.indstate.edu. For GUI interfaces, use nwftp.indstate.edu the host name. For command line interfaces, enter the command "ftp nwftp.indstate.edu". You should always specify this host name which will remain constant, not a server machine name which may change.
Your login username must be appended with your home server context with a dot before and after the username.
For example:
.cchelp.ambserv
.jdoe1.stu.isu
Contexts for the various servers are:
AMBER = .AMBSERV
BEFAC = .BEFSERV
CML = .CMLSERV.LIBRARY
MEDICINE = .THCME
PEARL = .LABS
RESLIFE = .RESSERV
RUBY = .RUBSERV
SCIFAC = .SCISERV
STU.ISU = .STU.ISU
EMP.ISU = .EMP.ISU
You will then be prompted for your Netware password.
After successful login, you should be in your home directory. If you do not appear to be in your home directory (wrong file list in GUI window or wrong directory when entering PWD (print working directory) in command line, contact the OIT Help Desk to have your server account settings checked.
After you've successfully logged in, you can also CD (change directory) around to any directory to which you have rights, including other Netware servers. To specify a directory on another server, the path should be expressed as //servername/volume/subdirectory.... example: //SCIFAC/SYS/FLUSERS/FLXXXXX.
This new ftp service supports files and directories with long names. If a directory name has spaces in it, you must enclose the path in double-quotes in the command line interface. For example: cd "ftp stuff".