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At the beginning of each semester, a JCCL account with your username assigned by FIU UTS is created for any student taking at least one computer class. This account has two sides, one for Windows XP and one for Unix/Linux.
The initial password for both unix and WinXP accounts in the JCCL is set to the initial of your first name, your panther ID and the initial of your last name. Both initials are lower case.
You will need to change your password on your first login. Changing your unix password does not affect your XP password, and vice-versa.
If you've heard about or used telnet, you will probably be delighted
to learn that it also has a secure "twin" known as ssh.
To activate ssh from the XP-machines in the lab,
click Start ->
Programs -> Applications -> Terra Term Pro.
If you're at home, you can still download Terra Term, but be sure to also download the ssh-extension.
Once you've got the Terra Term screen,
type computerofchoice.aul.fiu.edu into the Hostname field where
"computerofchoice" can be havana, madrid, quebec, ocelot, paris
(non computer
science students can put solix.fiu.edu in the Hostname field instead)
and make sure you select
"SSH" as your type of connection. Hit "Connect" or "Ok" or whatever
looks like it might work. The screen should then
show several informational messages, and finally respond with the prompt:
login: If you are a registered user at FIU in general and of the JCCL in
particular, you have been given a userid by solix,
and that's what you need to enter now.
Note: you must type in your userid and commands exactly as they
appear here, the exception being that you can add additional spaces if you feel
like it. But remember: Unix is case sensitive
and this means upper
and lower case letters are considered to be different. You should now have the prompt: Password: Go ahead and enter the "Unix password" dicussed above (either your social
security number without dashes, or whichever password you had on
solix at the beginning of the current term). Make
sure Caps Lock isn't on, unless your password is all uppercase. You can try
backspacing if you think you made a mistake, but if that doesn't help,
you should just be prompted again after a little while.
In case none of your passwords work, go to ECS 258 (the Systems Group) for
assistance.
In the lab, you also have the chance to use XWin32 on the XP
machines. To use XWin32,
click Start -> Programs -> Applications -> XWin32. You should now be presented with a screen that looks sort of gaze-like
and has a little window in its upper left corner telling you which machines
are "willing to manage" your session.
If you got the big screen, but not the
little window, there's no need to despair. Simply rightclick on the
XWin32 icon in the Windows taskbar, or on the titlebar of the
XWin32 screen. A dropdown menu will appear. Leftclick
on Sessions, then choose XDMCP. This will make the little window appear.
Select weasel from the list, then click Ok. You
will now be presented with a login screen that requires the same information
as described for an ssh session above. So, even though you are
sitting at an XP machine, you will have to type your "Unix password" to log
into the Unix-machine weasel. And just like in an ssh
session, you have to hit the [Enter] key after your username; hitting
[Tab] instead will put your password right after your username, so it
can be seen by anyone who's interested. If your login gets accepted, but
the background does not change after about 20 seconds, kill your current
XWin32 session either through the Task Manager ( Alt + Ctrl + Del, click
the Task Manager button ), or try rightclicking on the XWin32 icon or
titlebar and choose Close from the menu. Then call up XWin32
anew, and try once more. If you still don't get a changed background and
a couple little icons, please see a lab assistant for help. XWin32 is
great program, but it does have its bugs and moods.
If you're successful, all you need to do now is get yourself a shell.
The shell is the interface that lets you type commands at weasel,
just like you do when you ssh into it. (You could also compare it to
the DOS prompt). To get a shell, you simply rightclick anywhere on your
desktop. This will bring up an applications-menu, and the shell is "diguised"
as XTerm; it should be the third from the top. Click on XTerm,
and there's you shell! Ideally, it will have a prompt awaiting your
commands, that looks somewhat like this:
Using ssh
Using XWin32
jdoe01@weasel.aul.fiu.edu:~ 1%
In case you got one that looks more like
>
you probably accidentally deleted you Unix-environment files that lived in
your U drive the first time you logged on many, many moons ago. Go to
ECS 258 (your friendly systems group) and ask them to restore your Unix
environment.
| Note, however, that the lefthand-most greater-than symbol > preceeding a command does serve a purpose in this and most other tutorials: it is used as a generic prompt. |
If you feel really adventurous, you can also log into one of the Linux machines. The login procedure and your password are exactly the same as when establishing an XWin32 session; however, you won't have the comfort of returning to the safety of Windows when unexpected things happen.
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If your goal is to "just get started on the system", you only need to complete the basic sections identified by the red car. | |
The sections identified by the race car are somewhat more advanced or specialized (and more fun). |