Upon login either locally or remotely, the users' home directory resides locally on the Linux machine, in /home/{username}.
In addition, the user's Sun home directory is NFS-mounted onto the Linux machine,
in /import/thoth/hN/{username}, where hN is either h1, h2, h3 or h4.
On the Windows PC, sending unencrypted passwords to third-party servers must be enabled. To verify/enable, go to:
Following reboot, it is necessary for the user to mount their Sun home directory onto the Windows PC as a network drive. To do this: Right-click on "My Computer", select "Map Network Drive.."
In the "Map Network Drive" window: Select a drive letter in the "Drive:" drop-down menu, then for "Folder:" enter \\physsamba.rutgers.edu\{username} where username is the user's Physics account userid. Then click on "Connect using a different username".
In the "Connect As…" window, enter the Physics account userid and password in the "User Name:" and Password:" fields respectively, and click OK.
Back in the "Map Network Drive" window, click "Finish".
After a few moments, the user's Sun home directory should appear as the
selected drive in a "My Computer"-style window.
File transfer between Unix and Linux systems is possible via the scp or sftp commands.
For Mac OS X:
As with ssh, sftp support is built into the Terminal application.
For Windows:
File transfer between Windows and Unix/Linux systems is possible via WinSCP, downloadable from: winscp.net/eng/download.php.
Copying directories from one Unix/Linux system to another is possible via the rsync command.
The following command copies the entire directory "proj" to the "/planning" directory on the remote destination host "ourhub":