NetFiles Service Available to CDes
Just in time for summer break, a great new service is now available to all CDes faculty, staff, and students: NetFiles. NetFiles is a file storage service supported by OIT that is accessed through a web browser. Every NetFiles user is given five gigabytes of space to store their files. Because you work with NetFiles through a web browser, it means you can access your files anywhere there’s a computer and a connection to the Internet!
You can also use NetFiles to share files, under your control, with anyone regardless of whether or not they have a NetFiles login. By default, files uploaded to NetFiles are not shared with anyone. However, if you want to share something, you can! That means faculty and researchers have a quick and easy way to share documents with colleagues around campus, at other institutions, or both. Students can create their own groups for class projects or share files with friends.
The NetFiles system is also a personal web server. A special folder (directory) named “www� is created automatically in your NetFiles storage space. Any files you put in that folder are accessible by the public as web content. Keep in mind that you need to respect copyright laws and the U’s acceptable use policies for anything you put in NetFiles, especially in a public web site.
To get the NetFiles service you need to sign up. Full details and information about how to get signed up are available at this web site.