Hi Everyone:
Did you know that you can access your 'cc' account from the Macintosh OS X Desktop? Why would you want to?
ACN provides you with 100MB of regularly backed-up storage on their servers. While many of you probably only use 'cc' for your email, you can also use it for storing and/or moving your files between networked computers.
Some of the users on this list may have discovered the "Connect to Server" option in the "Go" menu in the Finder (Command Key - K). You may have even tried typing in the following: afp://cc.umanitoba.ca/
.. only to get a connection error.
Well there is a little know fact that only one of the many servers which respond to the request: afp://cc.umanitoba.ca/
.. actually has the necessary software to allow you to gain access to your 'cc' account from the 'Desktop' of your Mac.
The trick is to ask for the specific server which as the necessary software. Try this string of text in the 'Connect to Server' window: afp://rigel.cc.umanitoba.ca
'rigel' has the necessary software to allow an 'afp' (Apple File-sharing Protocol) connection. In the authentication windows which opens, type in your 'cc' account name and password (the same as your email account), and your 'cc' account will show up as a drive on your Desktop (In the authentication window you might want to click on the "Options" button and example some of the features available to you). Now you can drag-and-drop files to and from your 'cc' account as if it were a hard drive connect directly to your computer. You can move files between any computer which has a high-speed Internet connection, or which is directly connected to the UofM's computer network. This includes MS-Windows computers. However, I don't do windows (small joke), so you might want to speak with your local computer support person about windows file sharing and 'cc' accounts.
Wayne, perhaps you could describe how an MS-Windows user would connect to their 'cc' account for the purposes of file transferring?
It should be noted, that while you can connect using this method via a dial-up connection. I would only recommend people with high-speed, or the slower "light-speed" connections use this service.
I hope that you will all find this a useful service, provided by the people in ACN.
Regards, Doug
------------- Doug Hamilton, BA, MA, APP Senior Apple Computer Consultant Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba 204-474-6196 204-474-7556 http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/