External access to the institute's storage services

The institute uses two highly sophisticated network file sharing protocols which require a lot of configuration on the client side. Integrating an outside computer--i.g. a laptop--would require significant changes to its configuration. To avoid that, a gateway service is available which enables access to AFS (/afs/...) and StorageUnified (/data/...) via SFTP--a secure file sharing protocol spoken by easily installable software. Keep in mind that data accessible from outside the institute network is only a small subset of the data storage in the MPI CBS.

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Usage Instructions

1. Get a software package that can connect to SFTP servers.
   • The program FileZilla (Downloadable here) can be used for that. It's available for Linux, Windows and macOS. Have a look at FileGatewayUserDmz for a short howto.
2. Connect using these parameters:
   • Name of the server: transfer.cbs.mpg.de
   • Protocol: sftp
   • Username: Your login name (just the name part without cbs.mpg.de)
   • Password: Your institute password
   • For verification, you should check the server's identity's fingerprint. It should match one of these:
     • SHA256:JvwIxr6GP8wCCirFefMDU3OsYqtkEXgl0z/wBUdv7Zg.

     • +--[ED25519 256]--+
       |  o.. .oo        |
       | . +o  ... .     |
       |. o  + o  o .    |
       | . o .* o. +     |
       | ...+.o=S E .    |
       |o ++B..=         |
       |+oo*.B. .        |
       |+oo *.o          |
       |. .=o. .         |
       +----[SHA256]-----+
       

Advanced information:

• Sometimes it's possible to use a URL: sftp://[Your_loginname]@transfer.cbs.mpg.de
• Port: 22 (This is the default port. You should not have to enter it somewhere)
• SSH-authentication method is: password
  • keyboard-interactive is explicitly not supported.

Important external storage areas

• /data (StorageUnified , external storage blocks only.)
• /afs/cbs.mpg.de/tmp/internet (Public share folder)