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Polybox Cloud Storage

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:39:04 +0200

Please use Polybox instead of Dropbox whenever possible.

The advantages of Polybox are:

Polybox is a service of ETH Zurich
Data is stored at ETH Zurich
Every user has 50 GB of storage space (more is possible upon request)

Polybox is installed on all our Mac and Linux clients. The Linux version is called OwnCloud.

You can download Polybox for your private computer or mobile phone from the Polybox website:

Accessing your files (on the server)

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:26:43 +0100

You can access your files that you have on the server via Samba (recommended for administration staff and also for all macOS users) or via SSH (ssh, sftp, rsync, unison, …)

Access via Samba (VPN needed!)

Connect to:

smb://shares.math.ethz.ch (macOS & Linux)
\\shares.math.ethz.ch (Windows)

and log in with your eth-username and your e-mail password.

MacOS

Select the Finder , in the menu Go , click on Connect to server… , enter the address smb://shares.math.ethz.ch , click on Connect and authenticate. Afterwards you will be prompted to select a “volume” like “your-eth-username”, “www” or “share-xyz”.

Secure File Transfer (SFTP) to the D-MATH network

Wed, 17 May 2023 10:42:54 +0200

SFTP can be used on all platforms, incl. Linux, Windows and Mac to transfer files to / from the D-MATH fileservers.

Filezilla for all platforms

Open the application filezilla, if you need to install it you can download it from:

https://filezilla-project.org/

With the following information you can connect

Host: sftp://sftpmath.math.ethz.ch
Username: [your username]
Password: [D-MATH password]

Click on the button “Quickconnect”
You may need to trust the ssh host key of the server to be able to connect