SUNCAT has a file sharing area at SLAC for all people with a SLAC unix account, using a simple drag-and-drop interface on Mac/Windows (on Unix you can "cp" or "scp" files to the afs directory described below). These are the instructions for the free "cyberduck" program, but other programs that support SFTP should work similarly.
The model is that each user will have read-write permissions for their own folder, and those folders will be read-only by other suncat users. The structure of files within your folder is up to you, but I suggest you have a "Talks" directory and a "Papers" directory at the top level.
- Email cpo@slac.stanford.edu asking him to create a shared folder for you.
- Download/Install appropriate (mac/windows) version of cyberduck from http://cyberduck.ch
- For Mac: drag the downloaded file into your "Applications" folder
- For Windows: run the downloaded install executable, and use the default installation options
- After the above installation, run the application by double-clicking
- Click on "Open New Connection" on the top-left, then enter the following on the window that appears:
- Select "SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)" using the top drop-down menu
- Enter your SLAC UNIX username/password
- Click the "more options" item at the bottom of the window
- For "Path" use: /afs/slac/g/suncat/share
- Click connect
- After connecting, using the "action" drop-down menu at the top, select "New Bookmark". You only have to do this once, in order to remember the above settings.
For future connections, you can avoid all the above and click on the appropriate "bookmark" icon in cyberduck.
You can now drag-and-drop files from your mac/windows desktop to your shared folder and vice-versa.