Transfering data between computers

How do I transfer data between a Mac or Windows computer and MSI Unix computers?

You can use any compatible SFTP or SCP software to transfer data from your personal computer to MSI systems. We generally recommend using Globus Endpoint, especially when transferring large quantities of data. Alternatively the Help Desk has experience working with WinSCP to transfer data from Windows machines, and FileZilla to transfer from Mac OS X.

If you are on the Unix side and need to pull data from your Windows U: drive, you can use smbclient:

$ smbclient -U 'MSI\username' -D username //falcon2/Users

From the prompt:

smb: \username\> 

You can issue ftp style commands ('ls', 'get', 'cd', etc.). To get an entire directory recursively, use:

smb: \username\> prompt

smb: \username\> recurse

smb: \username\> mget DirectoryName

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