Posted by Edmund Tse | Posted in News | Posted on 25-08-2008-05-2008
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Recently, some white squarish objects that have been installed on the walls around School of IT. In case you’re wondering what they are, they’re actually Cisco wireless access points that’s connected to the university network. This means, anyone with a UniKey account will be able to access the internet while connected.
So far I’ve spotted 2 APs in the Masters area, and another AP in the SIT lecture theatre. All you have to do is to find the access point (named “usyd”), and connect to it. Then, you can connect to the internet via VPN or SSH, just follow our tutorials.
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Posted by Chris Leong | Posted in Tutorials | Posted on 18-04-2008-05-2008
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Instructions on how to access the files in your SIT home directory from your own computer.
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Posted by Edmund Tse | Posted in Tutorials | Posted on 02-03-2008-05-2008
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PuTTY is a program that allows you to use ssh on Windows. It has all the features of the Unix OpenSSH, and is an essential piece of software for any Windows user.
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Posted by suits | Posted in Tutorials | Posted on 04-12-2007-05-2008
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This describes how to use an SSH tunnel to access web sites from the UCC (University Computing Centre) wireless network. This is what you want to read if you’re an SIT student and you want internet access from your laptop in Wentworth, etc.
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Posted by James Bunton | Posted in Tutorials | Posted on 17-04-2007-05-2008
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SSH is a program used to connect to remote machines securely. One of its main uses to you will be to login to the School of IT computers from home to access files. You can set up private/public keypairs to allow logins without a password. It also is able to forward TCP tunnels between remote machines for port forwarding. All data is transmitted securely through the encrypted connection.
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