FTP-ing to Your IPFW Network Drives

The following faculty and student instructions will help you fill in the account and host information in your FTP program of choice (Hummingbird, Rapid Filer, WSFTP, CuteFTP, Fetch, FTP Explorer, etc.). For specific instructions relating to your FTP program, please consult its help files.

Please note if you are on campus, you do not need to use FTP to access your IPFW network storage space. Faculty, staff and students all map their network drives when they log into the PCs on campus--making them available as drive letters (I, O, P) in My Computer. The exception to this is for student organizations who do need to use myIPFW or FTP to access their network drive space.

Faculty/Staff Configuration

• Host: ftp.ipfw.edu
• Username: your full network username
• This is a combination of your username and campus context, such as: .doej.ath.fa.ipfw
• If you are not sure what your full username is, go to the online campus directory and look up your last name
• When your name is returned, click your username
• Your full username will be listed after Context
• There is a dot (period) at the beginning of your full username that cannot be left out
• Initial (Root) Directory
  • I Drive: Leave blank
  • O Drive: \\cla_shared_files_server\sharedfiles\shared
  • P Drive - personal web space: \\web3\web\docs\users\your_username (ie. \\web3\web\docs\users\doej)
  • P Drive - departmental web space: \\web3\web\docs\your_dept (ie. \\web3\web\docs\ath)

Student Configuration

• Host: ftp.ipfw.edu
• Username: your full network username
• This is a combination of your username and campus context, such as: .anderm01.a.students.ipfw
• Your context is the first letter of your last name followed by students.ipfw
• For example, Rachel Mae Anderson's full username would be .anderm01.a.students.ipfw
• There is a dot (period) at the beginning of your full username that cannot be left out
• Full usernames for campus organizations are .orgname.org.students.ipfw, i.e. .bsa.org.students.ipfw
• Initial (Root) Directory
  • I Drive Web Folder: web

If you have any questions or problems, feel free to call the Help Desk at 481-6030.