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).

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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You will need an SFTP client.

Windows: FileZilla

Mac OSX: Cyberduck

All Linux distros should be able to connect by SFTP without additional software. Try typing sftp://user@host into the location bar of the file manager.
Connnect using

Host: ftp.ug.it.usyd.edu.au
Username Your SIT username
Password: Your SIT password
Port: 22
Protocol: SFTP

Make sure you connect using SFTP (port 22) rather than FTP (port 21). FTP is very insecure and will transmit your username and password unencrypted over the network.

With any of the above clients you should be able to bookmark the URL so you don’t have to type the hostname every time. Once again, make sure you choose SFTP for security. You can optionally save the password locally.

Firefox settings

In Firefox 2.0, go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Network->Connection Settings

Put in the proxy details (host www-cache.it.usyd.edu.au, port 8000) and check the box marked “Use the same proxy for all protocols”. At the bottom there is a list of domains to not use a proxy, add:
, .usyd.edu.au
Alternatively you can use the autoconfigure URL:
http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/proxy.pac

Unix Environment Variables

See Command Line Proxy Tutorial for more details.

Unix Environment

To use the School of IT proxies you want to set the following environment variables:
export http_proxy="http://www-cache.it.usyd.edu.au:8000"
export no_proxy="127.0.0.1, localhost, .usyd.edu.au"

sudo environment vars

sudo clears all environment variables before executing the command for security. This means if you run something like
$ sudo aptitude update
it won’t work because http_proxy gets cleared. You can fix this by doing the following. Be careful!
$ sudo visudo
Add this line:

Defaults env_keep="http_proxy https_proxy ftp_proxy no_proxy"

Mac OS X Location Settings

If you use Mac OS X and change locations frequently it’d be nice if your command line utilities picked up the proxy settings from System Preferences.

Have a look at http://delx.net.au/projects/proxyconf

To set up your personal webspace allowed on your School of IT (SIT) account, log into a congo machine either at uni or via SSH and type the following commands:

$ mkdir -p ~/lib/html
$ chmod 711 ~
$ chmod -R 711 ~/lib
$ cd ~/lib/html

Create your webpage in this directory (~/lib/html), say it is called index.html. Now to make it publicly visible on the internet, type the following:

$ chmod a+r index.html

Then assuming your Usyd username is abcd1234, open your Internet browser and go to http://www.ug.it.usyd.edu.au/~abcd1234/