Vermont Educational Telecommunications Consortium

Using WS_FTP for Windows

In Windows, open WS_FTP. In the dialog box that appears you will need to provide the following information:

    Host name: vetc.vsc.edu
    User ID:  your VETC account name (EX: ces, hes, etc.)
    Password: your VETC password

After pressing OK, WS_FTP will connect to your VETC account. On the left side of the screen you will see your local drives and files. On the right side are your VETC directories and files. In each case, directories are listed in the upper boxes while files within those directories are listed in the lower boxes.
To change to the directory where your HTML files are, select the appropriate drive letter. Clicking on the two dots will take you up one level in the directory structure. You can see where you are in the directory structure at any time by looking at the path just above the box. The VETC (right) side works the same way. Clicking on the two dots takes you up through the directories. Clicking on a directory name takes you to that directory.
Once you have found your HTML file, click the ASCII button below the boxes. Click once on the file that you want to move. (This highlights the file.)
With the file highlighted, click on the right-facing arrow in the middle of the screen. This will move your file from your hard drive to VETC. You will see the file moved to VETC.
Rename the file with the extension .html by clicking on the file in VETC, then clicking on the "Rename" button to the right. In the dialog box that appears, re-type the name with the .html extension and click OK.
When files are moved to VETC they are automatically set to be unreadable by the general public. To re-set the rights on your file so that they can be accessible on the Web point to any blank area in the WS_FTP screen and click the right mouse button. This brings up a menu titled "FTP Menu."
Using the left mouse button, click on the "FTP Commands" item, then on "SITE."
In the dialog box that appears type:
```
    chmod 644 filename
```
where filename is the name of the file you just moved.
or try this shortcut if you have many files to move. Before moving the files, open the menu for FTP commands as described above, then, instead of typing "chmod 644 etc." type:
```
    umask 022
```
umask 022 tells FTP to set the rights for all files to be moved during this session. That is, you only have to type it once, then, when you move several files they will all have the proper rights set. This will be true as long as you are connected to your account in WS_FTP. The next time you connect you will have to type it again.
That's it! You've moved your files to VETC and they are now available to anyone on the Web!

Complete the Web Publishing Cycle by returning to section titled Open in Web Browser (choose option #2 this time!) or by using the buttons below:

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E-mail: webmaster@vetc.vsc.edu

Updated by: Hope Greenberg
July 10, 1996.