Homeroom Directory User's Guide
What is Homeroom?What is Homeroom used for?
How do I map a drive to Homeroom?
How do I access Homeroom from home or off-campus?
Precautions
Backup and Restore
What is Homeroom?
Homeroom is portable disk space for all students, faculty and staff. It is accessible via Macintosh, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, and UNIX. You can access your personal, private disk space on homeroom from on campus or remotely via dial-up connection (PPP) or via FTP or a web browser.An MNA (MUSC Network Account) is required to access Homeroom.
The amount of space allocated (quota) for each user is 500mb, (more can be leased from OCIO-IS). You can check your use of space at: http://www.musc.edu/homeroomquota/. Note: files in website directories (dept_html) are not counted against individual quotas. It is recommended that you maintain backup copies of your Homeroom files. To have Homeroom files restored (that have been lost, deleted or corrupted, etc.), a restoration fee will be charged.
What is Homeroom used for?
- Personal or Departmental web pages
- Departmental Web Pages
- Personal web space (public_html) Help
- after mapping to your Homeroom directory, create a subdirectory called "public_html"
- any web files under public_html can be viewed via the web address: http://www.musc.edu/~username/
- file storage
- Personal disk space is reliable, location independent and private.
- Can access from Macintosh or Windows or UNIX.
- Files are backed up nightly.
- Temp Space Storage
- Used for storing large amounts of data for short periods of time (up to four days), such as when updating peripheral storage devices or cleaning up hard drives. More info on temp space.
- file sharing (using a personal web directory, open to the public)
- create public_html directory under Homeroom; any files placed in this directory can be retreived by anyone with web access at this URL: http://www.musc.edu/~username
- subdirectories can be created under the public_html directory for file organization
- file transfer (from campus/work to home), using PPP
or FTP
- access to MUSCLS Article Indexes (Ovid) - http://www.library.musc.edu/red-ovid.html
- Pine E-mail
- any mail you save (or export) from Atrium is saved in your Homeroom directory. With Homeroom, those attachments are just a mouse click away.
How do I map a drive to Homeroom?
(from on-campus machines only)Mapping to Homeroom from a Windows machine
Mapping to Homeroom from a Macintosh (OS 9) machine
Mapping to Homeroom from a Macintosh OS X (10.3) machine
How do I access Homeroom off-campus?
- Through the web: https://appserve.musc.edu/ftphomeroom/
- FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- Download SSH secure ftp client
- Connect to atrium.musc.edu, use your MNA user name and password to Connect
- Upload or download files to your PC or Mac.
- Use "atrium.musc.edu" as the host name.
- Mac OS X ftp connection:
Accessing homeroom remotely (via DSL or cable) on Mac OS X requires a secure SSH connection such as can be made with RBrowser . Once you've downloaded this really good application, set up an SSH connection by using the following:Host: atrium.musc.edu
username: your MNA user name
password: your MNA password
path: /
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use: AUTO MODE
Precautions
Always
Disconnect from your Homeroom Directory when you've finished a session
- From a Mac, drag your Homeroom Directory icon into the trash
- From Windows, right click the Network Neighborhood icon, then select Disconnect
Never
- Never throw out a file that begins with a period (.) These are called "dot" files and are crucial to the smooth operation of your e-mail and other programs (files like .pinerc and .cshrc, etc.)..
- Never throw out the folder called mail
- Never throw away the files ovid.cci, ovid.ini, or ovid.hcc These files contain your Ovid configuration.
- Do not let unneeded files accumulate: keep your Homeroom Directory lean.