Where should I save my files when connecting to a Non-Realm Red Hat Enterprise Linux VCL environment?

Most of the non-Realm Linux environments have openAFS installed and configured for NCSU acounts. If you are using a NCSU account, simply transfer you data from the remote machine to a location in /afs.

If AFS or some other network share is not mounted. Then you will need to transfer your data using sftp(secure file transfer protocol) or scp(secure copy). This requires you to copy it to your local machine or another machhine you have access to.

Copying data from the remote computer to your local machine:

• Windows - you will need a scp client such as winscp
  • More information can be found at the EOS Remote Access site under WinSCP
    
• Linux - simply use the native scp command
• Mac OS X -
  • scp/sftp are native commands, open a terminal window. There is also a man page which provides more detailed information 'man scp' or 'scp --help'
  • Fugu - A Mac OS X SCP and SFTP graphical frontend.
  • Cyberduck - A Mac OS X SFTP graphical frontend.

Traditional ftp (file transfer protocol) is not recommended. It does not support encyrption or secure authentication, basically passes your password in clear text to the remote machine. Also, some locations actually block ftp network traffic.