[wplug] Online File Storage

[David G Matthews]

Thanks a lot.  I thought PItt did something like this, but I wasn't sure.
This is just what I was looking for! 
-dgm


On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, B Lauris wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is what i did when I was a pitt student...
> 
> All pitt students get an afs quota. Your afs
> directory is /afs/pitt.edu/home/d/g/dgm4
> You can write to this space while logged into
> unixs or any of the sunboxes in the labs.
> If you are on another machine with afs installed,
> you can type klog dgm4 at pitt.edu in the shell
> it will the ask you for your password.  Then
> you can cp files to /afs/pitt.edu/home/d/g/dgm4
> all you want, even if you are not on the pitt
> network.
> 
> If you are on a windows or mac, you still can ftp
> to the same directory for upload/download.
> ftp.pitt.edu use your user & pass and it will
> automatically upload to your same afs directory.
> 
> If you want your stuff to be downloadable from
> a web browser, put files in your
> /afs/pitt.edu/home/d/g/dgm4/public/html directory
> and then they will be seen at 
> http://www.pitt.edu/~dgm4
> 
> Everybody starts off with 5megs of space, but if
> you need more, all you have to do is ask for it.
> If you need more than 20megs you may have to get
> a faculty member to sign for it.
> 
> Here is a website were I learned most of this
> stuff as a student
> http://www.pitt.edu/~document/html.html
> Some of the stuff maybe a little outdated but
> I think it's enough to get you started.
> 
> Good Luck,
> Beth Lynn
> 
> --- David G Matthews <dgm4+ at pitt.edu> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of any good (free) web or ftp-based
> > online file storage
> > services?  Someone had told me about Driveway.com,
> > but they are no longer
> > handling "consumer" (their term) accounts.  I'm on
> > an analog modem, so I
> > can't run an ftp server, but I want an easy way of
> > sharing files between
> > my home machines and computers at school without
> > using floppies or filling
> > up me email folder with attachments.  Thanks,
> > dgm
> > 
> > 
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