What's in Your UCFileSpace?
by Don Rainwater
At the beginning of Fall Quarter, UCit introduced a new online file storage service called UCFileSpace. As a UC student or faculty member, you can use your UC user ID to access your own personal online storage space - your UCFileSpace.
You can access your UCFileSpace from anywhere on the UC campus network. Possible access points include:
- your dorm room or office
- almost any computer lab
- any network port or wireless network area (with your laptop)
- the instructor workstation in any electronic classroom (faculty only, please)
If you connect to the campus network from off campus using UC's VPN service, or using secure client software (SSH/SFTP), you can access your UCFileSpace from anywhere in the world.
Use your UCFileSpace just like you would use a floppy disk, recordable CD, or keychain drive. Copy your computer files for convenient access from multiple locations, or use it as a place to keep a backup copy of a paper that you're working on.
It is wise to always keep a backup copy of files that are important to you. You can copy the documents on your computer to your UCFileSpace or vice versa, and synchronize them from time to time. We do system backups of UCFileSpace to allow us to restore the entire system in the event of a hardware problem, but we cannot restore individual user files.
Easy Web Pages
You can use your UCFileSpace to publish a personal web site. Getting a web page online is easy. First, create the page in your favorite web page editor (or use Microsoft Word and select "Save as Web Page..." from the File menu). Then, just open your UCFileSpace and drop the new web document into your Sites folder. Instantly, the document will be available online at http://homepages.uc.edu/~username/document (where 'username' is your UC user ID, and 'document' is the name of your web document file).
The first web page that you'll want to work on is your default, or main, page. This is the page that appears when you leave off the /document part of the web page address (http://homepages.uc.edu/~username). On UCFileSpace, this document is called index.html. Your UCFileSpace account includes, in the Sites folder, a template index.html file that you can replace or modify.
For complete information about how to access and use your UCFileSpace, please visit the UCFileSpace web site. There, you will find instructions for basic file access (for both Macintosh and Windows computer users), information about all of the services that UCFileSpace provides, and access to online tools to help you manage your account.
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