Great Lakes High Performance Computing Cluster - Customers with accounts on Great Lakes can access AFS directly on Great Lakes.

Run Cyberduck, which is pre-installed on all Sites Mac computers. You will need to use SSH to share AFS files with other people, set up websites, and to check how much space remains available in AFS. SSH allows you to run commands on a remote system.

Use PuTTY to Connect to Remote Windows ComputersĪ command-line version of SSH that you can use in a terminal window comes built in on macOS, Linux, and newer Windows systems.

You will need to use PuTTY to share AFS files with other people, set up websites, and to check how much space remains available in AFS. This software allows you to run commands on a remote system. PuTTY is an SSH client for Windows computers.

Using WinSCP to Transfer Files with SFTP.

This client allows editing of remote files, encrypts data, provides a simple interface, supports all the protocols of WinSCP. It is a free client designed for Mac and Windows and it supports additional Mac features. It provides functionality that is similar to Cyberduck. This client is considered to be the best alternative to WinSCP by many users. WinSCP is an SFTP client for Windows computers. See Move All Files from AFS Space to a Computer WinSCP

Using Cyberduck: Creating Folders, Moving and Viewing Files, and MoreĬyberduck can also be used to download all of your files from AFS to your desktop.

Getting Started with Cyberduck: Downloading, Installing, and Running.

It provides most of the same functionality as mFile. Recommended and supported SFTP clients CyberduckĬyberduck is an SFTP client available for Windows and macOS computers. This is the recommended method to access AFS for most people who need to continue to access AFS after the mFile retirement. These access methods can work in place of mFile, which was retired on May 2. 16.04.The following AFS access methods are free software that is available as a download with customized, pre-configured connection information to the ITS Login Service, which is used to access AFS. I'll probably be porting FireFTP at least to PaleMoon so that the extension survives. Hence, motivation for working on it isn't the highest currently.

'Development on FireFTP is slowing down since Firefox is dropping support for it in version 57 later in the year. It can be found at the bottom of the page at: The other two have lots of extras that I don't need and thus make them more complicated to use.īelow is a post by Mime Cuvalo, who designed FireFTP, about the 'legacy' of FireFTP. My first choice (and one I will be using) is ClassicFTP because of its' simplicity and similarities to FireFTP. I tried using four free alternative FTP clients today: ClassicFTP, WinSCP, Cyberduck, FileZilla.

However, since it won't be compatible with Firefox 57 in Nov 2017, what is the best alternative(s)?

Cyberduck alternatives