Publishing pages ... from a Windows PC

If you just want to connect to your mypages folder... from any campus PC you can find it at:

M:\Web Pages\mypages

Resnet PCs may have a "login to M" icon on the desktop if the M: drive is not already set up.

To get access to /deptpages content too... you can set up your PC running Microsoft Windows 95/98/XP in such a way that, all you have to do to publish a page is to 'save' it to your "W:" drive.

To set up your W: drive on recently installed faculty/staff/lab computers you can select:

Start | GC Utilities | Map W drive

-OR-

Start | Web Design | Map W drive

If you do not have the "GC Utilities" option, follow these instructions to make your GC webserver account appear like a "W:" drive on your computer.

First, go to the "Start" button, and select "Run". Type in the following command "net use w:   \\www\paulmr ?" substituting your username for "paulmr" in the above. Press OK.

Second, You'll get a command window that looks like this:

Type in your e-mail password (also known as your LDAP password) and hit return. Hopefully, after a few seconds of waiting, you'll see a message to the effect that your command completed successfully. You can now close the black window.

Third, now, saving a file to W:\mypages will actually place it in the mypages folder of your home directory on www. Try it!--save a short file (e.g. in Netscape composer pick 'File | Save As'), let's call it 'foo.html', to W:\mypages\foo.html. Now test it out--go to your browser and browse directly to

http://www.goshen.edu/~your_userid/foo.html.

where it should appear.