Hello Efthymios,

The best feature to do what you want is the various options for uploading your files to a Galaxy data library - probably system file paths.  See http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Data%20Libraries/Uploading%20Library%20Files.  For all of the details about data libraries, see http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Data%20Libraries.

On Dec 15, 2011, at 5:59 AM, Makis Ladoukakis wrote:

Dear Galaxy developers,

I have installed a Galaxy local instance on our university's server and I am going to use it to analyze data also uploaded on the same server. Nevertheless the access to the server (and the data) is limited only to those involved with the project so making public urls for them is not an option. Downloading the data to my pc is also not an option as its volume is much greater than my hard drive. Is there another way for Galaxy to access those data?

Thank you,
Efthymios Ladoukakis 
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