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One of the features of your Brandeis UNet account is your UNet home space, which is your personal network-based file storage. You can use this network storage to backup files, share files with others by publishing to the Web, or move files from one computer to another.
Think of your UNet home space as a central repository to which you can store and retrieve files from any Internet-connected computer. This is handy when working on files on different computers, and is much more secure and reliable than carrying files around on portable media, which are susceptible to the environment. The contents of your UNet home space are backed up nightly and you have access to those backups in case you need to recover a file.
There are many ways to connect to your UNet home space, both on and off-campus.
Anyone with a browser can connect to his or her UNet home space via Wormhole.
If you want to transfer files to and from your UNet home space, you can use an SFTP client to connect to either conch.unet.brandeis.edu or urchin.unet.brandeis.edu.
If you want to connect to your UNet home space using a UNIX shell, you can use an SSH client to connect to one of our shell servers: conch.unet.brandeis.edu or urchin.unet.brandeis.edu. This can be useful if you need to recover a file.
Your UNet Home Space has three default folders: public, private, and WWW. The private folder is accessible only to you, while the public folder is accessible to any Brandeis user via methods such as SFTP and SSH, and the WWW folder is available to anyone, Brandeis user or not, at http://people.brandeis.edu/~[your username] (without the brackets). Files put in the root of your home folder (not in private, public or WWW) are only accessible to you.
