How to ...

This page assembles links gathered from the "How to" sections in top-level, main-category index pages. The list is not exhaustive, however, and you may find additional procedural information by browsing manually.

Accounts & passwords

• Obtain, use, and change the various types of passwords within SCS (overview).
• Use the instance manager to create or manage your Kerberos instances.
• Get a password reset if you have forgotten it.
• Choose a good password.

Backups & restores

Determine if your host is being backed up:

• Windows systems.
• Facilitized Unix/Linux systems.
• Mac systems.

Request a restore:

• Windows systems.
• Facilitized Unix/Linux systems.
• Mac systems.
• AFS.

Networking

• Fix the "Unable to resolve NetBIOS name" problem
• Use Netregister to request an IP address or add/change host registration information
• Configure your computer to obtain an IP address via DHCP
• Access the network using wireless networking
• Change your iPass client login ID and passwords
• Manage your Kerberos instances with the SCS Web-based interface
• Determine the hardware address of your computer
• Verify settings for your machine in the SCS Doman Naming System (DNS)

Printing

• Print from a Mac:
  • Mac OS X v10.4 and Earlier
  • Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard)
  • Mac OS X v10.6 (Snow Leopard), v10.7 (Lion), & v10.8 (Mountain Lion)
  • Install Mac drivers for Rainbow2COLOR
• Print from Unix/Linux hosts
• Print from Windows hosts
  • Windows XP and Vista
  • Windows 7
• Print a Poster
• Copy or Email a Document

Security

• Compute securely:
  • on Windows (including antivirus information)
  • on Unix/Linux
• Protect yourself against internet hoaxes and scams
• Prevent adware and spyware on your SCS Facilities-supported Windows PC
• Choose good passwords
• Protect your passwords when they go over the network
• Use Kerberized telnet to login securely to Facilitized Unix hosts
• Create an ftp Kerberos instance and use it for FTP
• Use SSH for secure login, file transfer, and network connections
• WebISO authentication controls access to SCS and campus web-based services
• Configure your X server software to prevent snooping
• Deal with a Windows break-in
• Deal with a Unix/Linux break-in

Software licensing

• See what licensed software is available at SCS:
  • By product.
  • By vendor.
  • By platform:
    • Macintosh.
    • Unix.
    • Windows.

Support charges

• Add or remove support charges (retire machines, remove users from support, and make other adjustments -- (CMU access only)
• View your support charges:
  • SCS web reports. Use your Andrew ID and password to view these reports (offsite link, will open in a new browser window)

Unix/Linux support

See the Unix quick reference guide for some basic information on how to use Facilitized Unix/Linux hosts.

• Get root access on your machine.
• Perform local system administration tasks on Dragon hosts.
• Perform local system administration tasks on Facilitized hosts.
• Get software for Unix/Linux hosts.
• Manage local software collections with Depot.
• Manage a misc collection.
• Install and use VMware (virtual machine software) to run Windows on a Linux host.
• Install Java on Ubuntu
• Troubleshoot common platform-specific issues:
  • on Linux
  • on Solaris

Using AFS

See the AFS quick command reference for a brief summary of some AFS commands and the meaning of AFS permissions and special groups, and explore links in the "AFS concepts" section, above, for more detailed how-to information.

Quota tasks

• Find out how much AFS quota you are using
• Change your AFS quota

Authentication tasks

• Change your AFS password
• List your AFS tokens
• Authenticate to AFS on Unix hosts
• Perform cross-realm authentication
• Authenticate daemons to AFS

ACL & pts group tasks

• Display and set AFS ACLs
• Set the ACLs on a directory and all of its subdirectories
• Make a directory on AFS private
• Make a write-only "dropbox" directory in AFS
• Create and manage AFS pts groups

Requesting special-purpose AFS space

• Request an academic AFS volume for a class
• Request a project AFS volume

Miscellaneous tasks

• Recover a file that you've deleted
• Create a cross-platform bin directory
• Troubleshoot some common AFS problems

Web publishing

• Set up a personal web page in AFS [introduction]
• Use .htaccess files
• Restrict FTP and AFS access to web pages
• Password protect web pages using Apache basic authentication
• Generate a certificate-signing request (CSR) and get a web server certificate
• Password-protect web pages using WebISO
• Set up your own web server using the SCS apache2 collection
• Set up your own web server using the SCS httpd collection [deprecated]
• Set up your own web server using the wwwsrv collection [deprecated]
• Make files available via anonymous FTP

Your Health

• obtain an ergonomic keyboard or mouse from Facilities.