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All current University of Maryland, College Park students, faculty, and
staff are eligible to get a Workstations at Maryland (WAM) account. Most
students get a WAM account when they attend summer orientation prior to
attending their first semester on campus, but any member of the University of Maryland, College Park
community can get an account by signing up for a WAM account in any of the
WAM labs on campus and getting it approved by the Office of Information Technology (OIT)
Help Desk.
Most people use their WAM accounts to send and receive email, but since each
WAM account is allotted 100 Megabyte (MB) of file space on the WAM Unix server, it can
also be used as a storage area for important files. The two advantages to
using your WAM account to store your important files are:
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You can access your files from any computer on campus that can connect
to the Internet.
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Files in your WAM account are backed up every night around midnight, so if
you accidentally delete the file the OIT Help Desk can help you recover
it if you visit them before the next backup.
The easiest way to store your files in your WAM account is to go to a WAM
lab. The WAM labs, as well as other open computer labs on campus, are listed
on a web page at:
http://www.oit.umd.edu/wheretogo/
When you login to a Windows computer in a WAM lab, different areas of your
WAM account are available to you as if they were hard drives (if you
double-click on the My Computer icon, you will see the different drives), so
you can use the Save As command in whatever program you are using
with your file to save the file to one of these virtual hard drives.
For Macintosh users, the Macintoshes in the WAM labs will also allow you to
save your files in this manner.
Even if you are not in a WAM lab, you can still access the available file
space in your WAM account from a computer connected to the Internet by using
a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) program. There are web pages that can
help you learn and use F-secure and Fetch, which are the FTP clients that we recommend.
WS_FTP: http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/applications/ftp/f-secure/
Fetch: http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/applications/ftp/fetch/
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