Posted by tim.dawborn | Posted in Tutorials | Posted on 30-03-2009-05-2008
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Assuming you are on the SIT network, you are able to mount your SIT home drive locally using SAMBA.
sudo mount -t cifs -o user=abcd9999,servern=ITCASESEC,uid=foo,gid=1001 //itcasesec/abcd9999 /mnt/abcd9999
where your SIT username is “abcd9999″, your local username is “foo”, and the GID of “foo” is “1001″. The folder /mnt/abcd999 should already exist (or change it to where ever you would like to mount the folder).
Posted by suits | Posted in Tutorials | Posted on 14-04-2008-05-2008
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Want to have your command line applications use the correct proxy to connect to the internet? Instructions here are applicable to Linux, OSX and other Unix systems.
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Posted by tim.dawborn | Posted in Tutorials | Posted on 05-03-2008-05-2008
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Did you know that the Usyd School of IT servers provide personal webspace for any students studying IT?
You can have your own website at a URL like http://www.ug.it.usyd.edu.au/~userXYXY
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Posted by James Bunton | Posted in Tutorials | Posted on 31-07-2007-05-2008
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Unix is a powerful system, well worth getting to know for the productivity benefits you can obtain, and also for the experience of learning to use a new operating system. This tutorial provides an introduction to get you from no knowledge of Unix to having a basic skillset good enough for day to day tasks, in a position for you to learn more.
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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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