Personal File Space

Your personal file space can be found on the network at:

• T://students/<GRAD or UNGRAD>/<Dept abbrev>/<your login name>
  If you are a student
• T://<academic or admin>/<Dept abbrev>/people/<your login name>
  If you are faculty or staff
• The U:\ drive when using Windows.

Within your personal network space, you will find a "home" and a "shared" folder. Your "home" folder is where you can place files you need to save. This folder is the same as your U:\ drive when using a Windows computer. Any file placed in the "shared" directory is available (read-only) to any other user with an Engineering account.

In the "shared" directory, you should have a directory named "drop-box." Use other people's drop-box to give a file to another person within the Engineering network. If you do so, we suggest you also email that person to let them know the file is there. Any file can be copied (or dropped) into the drop-box . Only the owner of the "drop-box" can take a file out. Do not drop folders into the drop-box - only files.

Keep in mind that you do retain "ownership" of all files you place within another person's drop box and those files will count against your total amount of disk space you have available. So you might want to request the recipient remove your files from their drop-box as soon as possible (and thereby transfer the ownership).

Personal Web space

You should have in your U:\ drive a "public_html" folder. This is the location for your personal webpage files in the College of Engineering. Any HTML files within this folder can be viewed via the Internet. The URL to view these files is:
http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~<your login name>/<name of the HTML file>

Example: http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~jsmith/whatever.html

The character before your login name is a "tilde." It is usually found on your keyboard on the left side next to the "1" key. If you save the file but get an error when you try to view it in the browser you may have permission problems.

If you'd like to learn how to create web pages, read these tutorials.