Taking advantage of Oak

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Taking advantage of Oak

• Presentation byRyan JonesSlave Joanvanoski

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What is Oak?

• Ohio Universitys e-mail, on-line directory, and
  personal network file storage environment.
• An account on Oak includes
• 50 megabytes of e-mail storage
• 200 megabytes of additional network space is
  available for personal use
• Oak also hosts many of the on-line services at
  Ohio University
• class registration
• course materials on Blackboard
• free software

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What are some advantages of using Oak storage?

• Less baggage as you may access you Oak storage
  from virtually anywhere!
• No need for floppy disks or any other type of
  physical medium
• All you need is a computer loaded with the
  appropriate software and access to the world wide
  web

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Advantages - continued

• Class Presentations Work on a PowerPoint
  presentation in your office or room, then upload
  the finished file into your network storage. Go
  to your classroom, log into your network storage
  from the classroom's computer, download file to
  local computer.
• Computer Labs Need to save a file you created in
  a computer lab? Log into your network storage,
  and upload the file from the lab computer into
  your network storage window. Need to bring a file
  from your office or room to a lab? It's the same
  process
• Backups Network storage is secure, private, and
  backed up nightly.
• Personal Web Pages Once activated, Oak users may
  maintain a personal web page

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How to access my Oak storage

• Any browser that supports web folders can be used
  to access your Oak storage
• Drag and drop files with ease
• There are some problems when using this approach.
  Not all browser have same requirements and
  therefore may act inconstantly under different
  platforms
• Answer? Use SSH!

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Accessing Oak - continued

• What is SSH?
• SSH Secure Shell is a client for establishing
  secure remote terminal sessions. It also includes
  a built-in SFTP client.
• SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) allows you
  to perform secure file transfers to and from
  remote computer systems like Oak.
• SSH Secure Shell is freely available to all Ohio
  University employees and students.
• What about FTP?
• Oak will no longer accept FTP connections. To
  transfer tiles to and from Oak

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Personal Webpage

• If your Oak account is active you may enable your
  webpage
• Oak allows you to have two different personal web
  sites a public site, and a password-protected
  site.
• Your public site is available to anyone with a
  web browser, anywhere on the Internet
• Your password-protected site is available only to
  users with a valid Oak ID and password
• Once it is enabled, you can further restrict
  access to your password-protected site by
  compiling a list of Oak IDs and uploading that
  list to your Oak account.
• Your public and password-protected sites are
  independent of one another and can be
  enabled/disabled separately.

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Personal Webpage continued

• Oak-specific web page requirements
• All HTML file names need to end with .html for
  the Oak system to recognize them as web pages.
• index.html is the default file that Oak
  searches for when a URL doesn't include a
  specific file name. If index.html doesn't exist
  in the appropriate folder, Oak simply returns a
  list of all files in that folder. You should name
  your home page "index.html" and make sure it is
  located in your main web folder. If you decide to
  create subfolders on your website, you can (and
  should) create an index.html file for each
  subfolder as well.
• File names on Oak are case sensitive. Unless you
  have good reason to do otherwise, stick to lower
  case.
• All Oak web pages must conform to the
  Universitys Computer and Network Use Policy

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Personal Webpage - continued

• Your URL
• Once you have created and uploaded your web
  pages, you'll need to know the correct URLs to
  view those pages. The basic URLs are
• Public Site http//oak.cats.ohiou.edu/oakid
• Password Protected Site https//oak.cats.ohiou.ed
  u/oakid
• Replace oakid with your actual Oak ID.
• If you have any subfolders on your site(s), their
  pages can be viewed by adding the folder name to
  the appropriate basic URL from above. For
  example, if you have a folder in public_html
  called "pictures", the URL for that folder would
  be
• http//oak.cats.ohiou.edu/oakid/pictures

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Using SSH to upload files

• Using a Secure FTP client, open a connection to
  oak.cats.ohiou.edu.
• Open the appropriate main web folder
• public_html for your public web site
• public_shtml for your password-protected site
• Set your Secure FTP client to ASCII mode and
  upload index.html and any other text files that
  belong in this folder.
• Change your Secure FTP client to Binary mode and
  upload any image/sound/etc. files that belong in
  this folder.
• Or you may select Auto-select mode
• Close your Secure FTP connection

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QA

• Thank you for your time
• Please see handouts for more information