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Dropbox Options
Western Illinois University Customers
If you are a DPS customer connecting to the DPS website using the University network—either on-campus or using University dial-up services—please use the DPS in-house dropbox.
Customers from Outside Western Illinois University Customers
If you are a DPS customer connecting to the DPS website from outside the University network, please use the DPS web-based dropbox.
Instructions for Using the DPS In-House Dropbox
Windows Users
Important Note
- When undertaking the instructions below, do not attempt to open the folder called "DPS-DropBox".
- DPS has designed the DPS-DropBox folder, like all such dropboxes, to allow users to drop files into the dropbox without seeing the contents of the dropbox.
Procedure
- In the Address bar of My Network Places, enter the address "\\dps1.wiu.edu\DPS-FileTransfer".
- Click the "Go" button on the right of the Address bar.
- If a dialog appears asking for a user name and password, enter "guest" (without the quotation marks) in the user name field, and leave the password field blank.
- Inside the DPS-FileTransfer folder that appears, customers will find two folders, "DPS-DropBox" and "DPS-PickUpBox".
- As a DPS customer, you can only drop files onto the DPS-DropBox folder.
- You cannot open the DPS-DropBox folder.
- You cannot see the contents of DPS-DropBox folder.
- Likewise, customers can pick up files from DPS-PickUpBox but cannot put files into DPS-PickUpBox.
Note to DPS Customers
- Please notify your DPS contact with file names before or immediately after copying files to the DPS-DropBox.
- Please delete files from DPS-PickUpBox once they have been copied to your local storage. Thank you.
Mac OS X Users
Important Note
- When undertaking the instructions below, do not attempt to open the folder called "DPS-DropBox".
- DPS has designed the DPS-DropBox folder, like all such dropboxes, to allow users to drop files into the dropbox without seeing the contents of the dropbox.
Procedure
- From the Finder, select "Connect to Server…" from the "Go" menu.
- In the "Connect to Server" dialog, enter the address "dps1.wiu.edu" (without the quotation marks) in the "Server Address" field.
- Click the "Connect" button.
- In the "Connect to Server" login dialog, click the "Guest" radio button from the "Connect as" options.
- Click the "Connect" button.
- In the list of sharepoints in the DPS-Server1 dialog, select "DPS-FileTransfer".
- Inside the DPS-FileTransfer folder that appears, customers will find two folders, "DPS-DropBox" and "DPS-PickUpBox".
- As a DPS customer, you can only drop files onto the DPS-DropBox folder.
- You cannot open the DPS-DropBox folder.
- You cannot see the contents of DPS-DropBox folder.
- Likewise, customers can pick up files from DPS-PickUpBox but cannot put files into DPS-PickUpBox.
Note to DPS Customers
- Please notify your DPS contact with file names before or immediately after copying files to the DPS-DropBox.
- Please delete files from DPS-PickUpBox once they have been copied to your local storage. Thank you.
