FileZilla User Guide

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Information Technology

Metropolitan State College of Denver Page 1 of12

Information Technology TrainingLast Edited: 1/10/2008

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1. Double Click Icon

Sign onto Titan, FTP a file to Titan, as normal.

***Go to Page 9 to perform permission change after transferring a file to Titan.

1a. The Very First Time, click Edit. DO NOT perform this task every time.


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1b Then ClickSettings, to bring up the following panel

In the Reconnection settingsbox, make sure the Maximum number of retries is set to 0.

Otherwise, if you forget your password, FileZilla will retry your login 5 times (default),causing Titan, Mars, Clem account to become disabled.


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Do all the steps from 2 thru 4 ONCE, to set up EACH FileZilla session.

Titan, Mars, Clem

2. Click the Site Manager button

3. Click the New Site Button

Next, type a descriptive name into the field labeled "New Site", ie Titan


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4. Go Host field: type titan.mscd.edu; Port: 22

Go to Servertype field: select SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol from drop down list

Go to the Logontype field: select Ask for password from the drop down listEnter your Username.

ClickOK


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5. Select the site you just created from the Site Manager drop down window and click the

Connect button

6. Enter Password, clickOK


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You are now logged in to the site.


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7. Change to the Jobsub directory.

Double click the titan.mscd.edu folder. Be prepared to wait for a while for the display to

change.

Click the jobsub folder. Again, there will be a long wait.

8. Find the files you need

Scroll down to the files. The format of the name will be

yourID_JobName_jobnumber.extension,

Double click, or drag the file names (to the left) to move the files to your workstationsfolder.


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All sites that you visit will be saved which you can access in the future by selecting the drop

down arrow.


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Changing permissions on recently transferred files.

1. In the Remote Site: box (right side of Filezilla window, place the path to the desireddirectory:

In this case, the desired directory is /user1/schultzm/finance


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2. In the window panel directly below the Remote Site box, locate the recently transferred

file:

Notice the highlighted filename. You will see the permissions set to -rw-------, which meansyou, as the owner, have read/write access to the file and no one else, including jobsub

processes.


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3. Right-click the desired file, find the file attributes option, left-click the option, and then

the following window appears:

4. Click the Read check boxes for both Group and Public permissions:

5. Click OK button to exit window.


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6. When you return to the main Filezilla window, you will notice that the permissions to the

highlighted file has been changed to -rw-r--r--, which will allow jobsub processes to read the

file. Notice in the top window, starting from the top, you can see what happened when youcheck the read boxes for Group and Public permissions and exited the dialog box.

7. Continue with your jobsub processing or other processing..

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