WinSCP Tutorial
This Tutorial is to describe how to install and use WinSCP, a program
that will allow you to transfer files from your home computer to
your network drive so that you can turn it in using WWWTurnin. I know
it looks long, but that's only because I went into a lot of detail. If
any of you have experience installing programs, you may want to skip
to the set up instructions.
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First things first, you're gonna need WinSCP. You can get it
here. Just click on the link
and save the .exe file somewhere on your machine.
(Just make sure you remember where you saved it).
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Next, open up Explorer by clicking 'My Computer' and navigate to
where you saved the .exe file. Double-click it to begin installation.
- A Welcome Window opens, click 'Next'
- Next is the license agreement, select 'I accept the agreement'
and click 'Next'
- The 'Select Destination Location' window opens, the default
location is fine, just click 'Next'
- The 'Select Components' Window is next, you may as well just
stick with the full installation, so just click
'Next' again
- Now it asks you to 'Select Start Menu Folder' unless you
want it to be named something else, just click 'Next'
- The next step, "Select Additional Tasks" is totally up to
you, if you want a desktop shortcut, leave the top box
checked, the rest you don't need, so un-check them
- The last option is what interface you want. "Norton Commander
interface" is a two-column interface where your home machine
appears on one side and your network drive appears on the
other. "Explorer-like interface" is just like when you
open any other folder (this may be simpler).
- At the 'Ready to Install' window, just click 'Install'
(depending on the speed of your computer, this should only
take a few seconds)
- Click 'Finish' when installation completes, leaving the
'Launch WinSCP' box checked.
- After installation, you need to set it up
- First click on 'Session' on the left-hand side, to bring up
the Session options.
- Fill in the 'Host name' as "hill.cs.ucr.edu"
- Make sure the 'Port number' is set to 22
- Fill in 'User name' with your CS username
- The 'Password' field gets, you guessed it, your CS
password
- Select 'SCP' in the 'Protocol' section
- Finally, click 'Save' so you won't have to enter all that
again (The default name works fine, but you can call it
whatever you want)
- Now that setup is done, you just have to click your saved session
to highlight it and click 'Login'
- The first time you login, you may see this message: "The server's
host key is not cached in the registry. You have no guarantee that
the server is the computer you think it is ..." This is no problem,
it just means that you haven't logged in from your home machine
before, just click 'Yes'
- A bunch of messages flash by, then an explorer window will open
showing your network drive. The commands are a little different
than a regular explorer window though.
- If you need to create a directory, like 'turnin' go to
Commands->Create Directory...
- Then simply drag your files into the directory you want.
- A dialog window will open, just click 'Copy' and the file will be
copied to your network drive, depending on the size of the file, and
your internet connection, it may take a few seconds to copy it
over
- Now you're ready to turn in the file from the
WWWTurnin site.
- When you're finished, just close the window, and click 'Ok'