Working with HTW Machines

Copy files from your HRZ Home Directory (aka HTW-Space)

There are rather verbose manuals about various ways to copy files from your HTW-RZ home directory to somewhere else. (see Freigabe von Dateien und Ordner über den Webdrive )

The gist is: you may connect via SSH File Transfer Protocol to the server webdrive.htw-berlin.de (on default port 22)- see example below. The sftp program used in the example is included in the OpenSSH Package; most probably you’ll already have it installed on your computer, e.g. in git-bash on a windows machine.

(The documentation says that you will need to be in the HTW Net or use the VPN; as of this writing the port is open to the world.)

ok ~/temp-net # sftp webdrive.htw-berlin.de
**********************************
Welcome to webdrive.htw-berlin.de.
**********************************
kleinen@webdrive.htw-berlin.de's password:
Connected to webdrive.htw-berlin.de.
sftp> pwd
Remote working directory: /
sftp> ls
HRZ GROUPS   home
sftp> get /home/.ssh/id_rsa
Fetching /home/.ssh/id_rsa to id_rsa
/home/.ssh/id_rsa                           100% 2610   440.5KB/s   00:00
sftp>

Note on sftp

sftp as used above is a program implementing the SSH File Transfer Protocol - Wikipedia, Which implementents commands that make it similar to the old file transfer protocol (ftp). (FTP over SSH would be something different, see c# - Differences between SFTP and “FTP over SSH” - Stack Overflow for a discussion)

You may simply type help once connected; or refer to the sftp man page sftp or this tutorial: Nutzung von SFTP zur sicheren Übertragung von Dateien mit einem Remote-Server | DigitalOcean