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[Nikos Nikoloutsakos]

Ansys provides a General Guidelines for Transferring Files (ansys.com) to AnsysGateway.

Here we discuss how to transfer files to LINUX NFS storage server deployed on Gateway as described here Creating Storage for Shared Data (ansys.com)

Mounted Drives

The local drives on your local machine can be automatically mapped to a virtual desktop. 

If you have enabled local drive mapping in your user settings, your local drives are automatically mapped to a virtual desktop when you connect to the virtual desktop.

On a Linux virtual desktop with KDE, the local drives are available as folders under Home/thinclient_drives in Dolphin (KDE's file manager):

SCP and SFTP protocol

To transfer data in and out the storage server scp and sftp protocols can be used.

From windows clients you need to install a transfer tool like WinSCP or FileZilla client.

WinSCP

 WinSCP :: Official Site :: Download

Configure a new site using host details, as provided on the AGW dashboard when connecting on the storage server using SSH

FileZilla

 Download FileZilla Client for Windows (64bit x86) (filezilla-project.org)

Configure a new site using host details, as provided on the AGW dashboard when connecting on the storage server using SSH. Port configuration use 22

Linux Command Line

From Linux clients a tool installation is not required. scp commands are available to use.

Push a local directory from your computer to remote storage server

scp  -r superadmin@[storage_server_ip]:[remote_dir]

Get a remote directory from storage server to your computer.

scp  -r superadmin@[storage_server_ip]:[remote_dir] [local_dir]

More information about using scp commands: 

man scp

[local_dir]: Local directory on the client machine

[storage_server_ip]: The storage server ip

[remote_dir]: Directory on the storage server

 

[Darren Martinez]

 

@uno online I have a wonder. What are the advantages of using SCP over SFTP? How can I troubleshoot common issues during file transfers?

 

[Nikos Nikoloutsakos]

 

Both allow secure file tranfers. Comparison of file transfer protocols - Wikipedia

Secure copy protocol – Wikipedia is faster , while SSH File Transfer Protocol – Wikipedia is more flexible as it provides a set of commands to perform various file operations (like ls, cd, put, and get)

Each client above support multiple protocols, WinScp and FileZilla both support sftp which is interactive for graphical tools.

For troubleshooting you should validate you can establish initally an SSH connection to the Ansys Gateway file server as described here:

Connecting to a Linux Virtual Machine Using SSH (ansys.com)