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EECS LAB COMPUTING UTILITIESBy

Anvith Mahabalagiri

Public Labs In order to access the public labs, you need your NETID and PASSWORD

Department labs Every EECS student must set up his/her EECS account In order to access the EECS computing labs, you need an EECS account . The EECS account establishes you workspace and your storage space on the EECS servers The EECS account can be set up for all the EECS students by the CIT helpdesk -204 Link hall(

https://web.ecs.syr.edu/cgi-bin/usercreate ) upon request.

Mapping your Home directory through public labs In order to access your EECS account home directory, Click and run the Map ECS Homedir script.

https://web.ecs.syr.edu/cgi-bin/usercreatehttps://web.ecs.syr.edu/cgi-bin/usercreate

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Your mapped network drive appears on the Network locations and you can easily access the fileson your account.

Accessing network resources remotely using SURA ( SU remote access) tool

In order to access the network drives, remote connect to a computer or access network

printers, ITS provides us with a tool called SURA.

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In order to learn more about SURA and perform its installation go to:http://its.syr.edu/security/remoteaccess/sura.cfm

Remote connection to Unix Environment using Putty and Xming In order to access tools remotely, we need to log in through a SSH tool like putty. To download putty, go to:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Select the version that best suits your requirement. (Ex: For Windows x86 we use putty.exe). Once you have the putty.exe, just double click and run the application.

SSH parameters Host name : nyx.ecs.syr.edu Port number : 22

Click on open to start the terminal and login with you eecs account.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.htmlhttp://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

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Parameters for remotely running a graphical user interface like qsh on local machine

If you are connecting from a windows environment, you need an X server to support the GUI of the remotemachine. Follow the exact steps to enable GUI

Step1: Xming is an open source X server. To download Xming go to:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/ Step2: Download and run Xming application. You should see an X ming icon on your system tray

which indicates that the server has started Step3: Run putty.exe. Set the SSH parameters as shown above. Step4: Select The X11 settings option under as shown below Step5 : Check the Enable X11 forwarding option and under the X display location, enter

localhost:0 . Now once you connect through SSH, you will be able to get the GUI.

Note: Cygwin can also be configured and used to remotely run a graphical user interface.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/