File transfer to/from Bianca using WinSCP

Download and install from UU Software Center.

You can also download the software from WinSCP website.

WinSCP is a secure file transfer tool that works under Windows.

Note

• Now you shall just log in with user name, like sven and NOT with project name, like sven-sens2025999
• All your project folders will all show up on the remote!

To transfer files to/from Bianca using WinSCP, do the following steps

Procedure

Would you like a video?

See the YouTube video (needs update because of not needed project name as username, see below) how to do file transfer from/to Bianca using FileZilla

To transfer files to/from Bianca using WinSCP, do the following steps:

1. Get inside SUNET

Get inside of SUNET.

Forgot how to get within SUNET?

See the 'get inside the university networks' page

2. Start WinSCP

Start WinSCP.

3. Create a new site

In WinSCP, click on 'Create new site'.

For that site, use all standards, except:

• Set file protocol to 'SFTP'
• Set host name to bianca-sftp.uppmax.uu.se
• Set user name to [username], e.g. sven
• Do not set password here!

How does that look like?

It looks like this:

4. Click 'Connect'

In WinSCP, click 'Connect'

You will be asked for your password with two-factor identification in two steps.

First enter [your password], and in next window [2FA code]

Note

• Now you shall just log in with user name, like nisse and NOT with project name, like nisse-sens2025999
• All your project folders will all show up on the remote!

Now you can transfer files between your local computer and your wharf folder.