You may need to know your userID and password on that machine in order to access your account. Clicking on this icon starts an FTP session. FTP gives you the ability to send and receive files over the Internet. You generally need to know the site which contains your file, and the name of that file along with its location on the remote machine. If you wish to obtain a file from an account you own on the remote machine, you will need to know both your userID and password on that machine.
Some sites allow anyone on the Internet to download certain files.
When you wish to obtain one of these files, enter anonymous as the userID and your e-mail address as the password. Clicking on this icon starts a Finger session. Finger is a program that tells you whether someone is logged on to a particular local or remote computer. The results may indicate their full name, terminal location, last time logged in, and other information, depending on the data that is maintained about users on that computer. This has been a quick overview of some of the clients now available on your workstation.