Your Apple network account

Please read our acceptable use policy.

To qualify for an account on this server you have to be either a student or staff member at Croydon College. You can appy for an account online from here. Please see the ICT staff on the 6th or 7th floor of the Barclay Road building for more information.

We can not be responsible for backing up your data, we make every effort to keep your files safe but no system is perfect. Please make your own copies of valuable files. You can store up to 60MB's of data in your account, we check the size automatically, if you excede this limit and then ignore our requests to bring your account within the limit we will remove the excess ourselves. For further details please click here

There are two ways to access the files in your account.

Via AppleShare from an Apple Mac.

Via FTP from any computer (Mac/PC/Linux etc.) that can access the Internet.

You can access to our server from anywhere that has Internet access, just connect to your ISP and enter our address.

Your account also gives you the ability to have your own web site. There is a folder called 'Sites' in your folder in the 'Users' share point, this is where you place your web site. Your web sites address is '/~***/' were *** is your login name. The tilda '~' is very important, it won't work without it.

There are 8 folders in your folder in the 'Users' share point.

Desktop

Documents

Library

Movies

Music

Pictures

Public

Sites