All university users can have access to this service (using your university credentials). If you do not have access please place a request through the DTS Self Service Portal.<\/a><\/p>\n It supports the following protocols:<\/p>\n The following directories are mounted on MFT by default:<\/p>\n The MFT service is available to all staff and students. However, from January 2021, if you haven\u2019t used it before you will need to request access through the DTS Self Service Portal.<\/a><\/p>\n The following connection methods are supported.<\/p>\n You can use any client for sftp or scp, such as filezilla,<\/a>\u00a0winscp<\/a> or the sftp,scp command line in Linux or Windows 10. Some examples are given for file transfer via scp are given here<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can download<\/a> or upload<\/a> files from your you unix home directory ot the mft-scratch directory using the web interface<\/a>\u00a0 or you can use the sftp or scp protocols with your preferred application. Here is a link to an sftp cheat sheet<\/a> if you are using a command line interface.<\/p>\n You can share<\/a> files or directories in your home directory or the mft-scratch directory by sharing a link on a time limited basis using the\u00a0 web interface<\/a>, navigate to the file or directory you want to share, click on When sharing a directory, select the “advanced option” and tick “full access”. The person you’re sharing with will then be able to upload content into this directory! Caution: only give full access to a sub-directory and to people you trust. Anybody receiving the link could potentially upload or delete anything in that folder!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can use folder storage-sftp to access the research storage, but you can not share files or directories in research storage with other users. To access storage-sftp you have setup a private key in \/home\/users\/<username>\/.ssh\/keys\/mft-storage and have the public key in \/home\/users\/<username>\/.ssh\/authorized_keys. This can be done with the following commands in a terminal window on https:\/\/nx.reading.ac.uk:4443<\/p>\n If you already have a ssh key in ~\/.ssh\/authorized_keys that you want to use that does not have a passphrase (not recommended) you can just create soft link instead<\/p>\n The reason for using the keys subdirectory is to limit the number of keys automatically used by ssh\/sftp\/scp.<\/p>\n The mft system will us e the private key in ~\/.ssh\/keys\/mft-storage to access the \/storage files. You can check if it is working correctly by running the following command from\u00a0 \/home\/users\/<username> on a nxnode<\/a> or the RACC<\/p>\n If you put\u00a0 public in one of the following files then you can use the private key with sftp or scp\u00a0 to access mft.act.reading.ac.uk<\/p>\n It is possible that in the future you might need both an ssh key and a password to be able to use sftp.<\/p>\n If you want to data transfers we can use use jobs<\/a> for example to upload files that have changed on a remote site or copy files that have been uploaded to a local user to a research data storage, alternatively\u00a0 you could use act-ssh connection caching<\/a> to transfer files using a pre authenticated ssh connection.<\/p>\n A tool is provided to manage 1 direction or 2 directions synchronizations. Read more on the CrushSync documentation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Before you go<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Installation steps<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Managed File Transfer mft.act.reading.ac.uk is a server used to transfer files between the university network and the rest of the world. All university users can have access to this service (using your university credentials). If you do not have access please place a request through the DTS Self Service Portal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":1053,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"kbe_taxonomy":[96,81],"kbe_tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","kbe_knowledgebase","type-kbe_knowledgebase","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kbe_taxonomy-mft","kbe_taxonomy-related-articles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Unorganized\/mft-diagram.png\")
<\/p>\nProtocols<\/h2>\n
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Default directories<\/h2>\n
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\nIt is good practice to create a sub-folder with your username and put your content in it<\/span>.
\n\/mft-scratch\/ will be emptied from time to time without any notice.<\/span><\/li>\nHow to Connect to MFT<\/h2>\n
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Transfer files between a remote client and my unix home directory<\/h3>\n
Share files and directories with others<\/h3>\n
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button, fill in the form with the email address of the person with whom you want to share the link.<\/p>\nReceive files from an external partner<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Transfer files to \/ from the research storage<\/h2>\n
mkdir -p ~\/.ssh\/keys\r\nchmod 0700 ~\/.ssh\r\nssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f ~\/.ssh\/keys\/mft-storage\r\ncat ~\/.ssh\/keys\/mft-storage.pub >> ~\/.ssh\/authorized_keys\r\n<\/pre>\n
ln -s ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa ~\/.ssh\/keys\/mft-storage<\/pre>\n
sftp -i ~\/.ssh\/keys\/mft-storage nxnode1.rdg.ac.uk<\/pre>\n
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Use an SSH key with sftp\/scp<\/h2>\n
~\/.ssh\/mft_authorized_keys.d\/id1.pub\r\n~\/.ssh\/mft_authorized_keys.d\/id2.pub\r\n~\/.ssh\/mft_authorized_keys.d\/id3.pub\r\n~\/.ssh\/mft_authorized_keys.d\/id4.pub<\/pre>\n
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Synchronize a directory between multiple PCs (in and out of the University)<\/h2>\n
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