Off-Campus File Access: Connecting From Your Home Computer Using Windows 98 or Millennium Edition

Connecting your home computer utilizes Microsoft’s ‘Web Folders’. The Web Folder component is included with and installed by default in Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows Millennium Edition. If Web Folders is not installed, you can download Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5

Making the Connection

  1. Open My Computer.
  2. Double-click on Web Folders.
  3. Double-click Add Web Folder.



  4. In the ‘Type the location to add:’ field, enter:

    https://axel.stolaf.edu/oneNet/NetStorage
    The field is case-sensitive; enter it exactly as it appears above. Note that it is https: and not http:.



  5. Click Next.
  6. If you get a Security Alert dialog box, click Yes.



  7. When prompted, enter your username and password. Uncheck the box ‘Save this password in your password list’. Click OK.



  8. Enter the name for this Web Folder, for example, ‘St. Olaf Files’. Click Finish.



  9. A window will open with listing of your files, or you will see the newly created folder appear in Web Folders; open it. You will see your home directory, the shared directory and the classes directory.



  10. Your connection to your St. Olaf files will be saved in ‘My Computer’. To access your files at a later time, simply open Web Folders and double-click on ‘St. Olaf Files’.


 

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