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In the instructions below, substitute your UW Net ID wherever you see "uwnetid".

Last updated: 10 Apr 2006

Internet Connections

We recommend using the UW Internet Connectivity Kit (UWICK) to provide a dial-up Internet connection. A CD version can be purchased at the University Book Store for $1.

To use a cable or DSL modem connection, simply use the tools below directly.

Secure Email Access

Students can use TeraTermPro with SSH Support (separately, or in UWICK) or SSH to telnet securely to dante.u.washington.edu to read e-mail.

Faculty and staff can use TeraTermPro with SSH Support (separately, or in UWICK) or SSH to telnet securely to homer.u.washington.edu to read e-mail.

Alternatively, one can view and send email over the web

Web Pages

Student web pages for CSS-authorized work are allowed from your Windows home directory (also called a network shared directory).

Substitute your own UW Net ID for "uwnetid" below.

  1. Create a directory called www in the root directory of your share (use this script to properly set permissions for the web server to be able to read your files):

    g:\makeweb

  2. Create a file called index.html in that directory.

    For example, put these lines in that file:

    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <TITLE>My Web Page</title>
    </head>
    <BODY>
    <H2>Hello, World!</h2>
    </body>
    </html>

     

  3. Refer to your web page as: http://css.insttech.washington.edu/~uwnetid

For more capabilities on other systems, see:

Access to Windows Home Directory

The ability to securely upload and download files using your campus Windows home directory from your residence (or elsewhere) is now in production. It uses a host computer called repos.insttech.washington.edu (also known as cssgate.insttech.washington.edu).

The current secure file transfer approach requires logging into repos.insttech.washington.edu, which is a Linux system.

  1. INSTTECH Home Directory (Institute lab computers)

    Your Windows home directory can be mounted on it by entering: 

    mounthome
    then enter your login password, much like you can currently "map a network drive" on Windows. Your home directory is actually a shared directory that Windows knows about and that can be shared to a Linux system running Samba, which is what repos/cssgate does.

    There is no need for an additional login account because windbind is used -- this is a Samba-based facility for authenticating Linux logins via a Windows server. What that provides is the same login account name (your UW Net ID) and password for two different systems.

    To get access to your files in your Windows home directory:

    1. Login

      You must use SSH (see Secure Email Access for details) to login to cssgate.insttech.washington.edu using your UW Net ID as a login name and your INSTTECH login password.

    2. If you want access to your Windows home directory, enter: 

      mounthome

      and enter your INSTTECH password when prompted.

    3. Look at the directory listing:

      cd win dir

    4. Transfer files using Secure FTP -- refer to the SSH documentation.

    5. The win directory is automatically unmounted when you exit.

    6. Exit the command shell.

      exit Doing this explicitly helps Linux to better manage its processes.

  2. UWT Home Directory (classroom/campus computers)

    The current method uses a web browser to gain authenticated access to your classroom/non-Institute login account's home directory.

Change Log

10 Apr 2006 Removed reference to mountuwt and added references to UWT Computer Services' Remote File Access (RFA) service.
7 Jan 2006 Added University Bookstore as a source for UWICK
3 Jan 2006 Changed means of making the H:\www folder to using a script
7 Oct 2004 Removed mention of UWICK containing SSH, and added generalized mounthome information
5 Oct 2004 Emphasized insttech.washington.edu, added info about mountuwt,removed PHP capability
2 Oct 2003 Changed domain from UWTCSS to INSTTECH
16 Jan 2003 Changed cssgate login instructions
21 Oct 2002 Original document

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