tim.dawborn on Mar 30th 2009
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).
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James Bunton on Apr 14th 2008
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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tim.dawborn on Mar 5th 2008
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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James Bunton on Jul 31st 2007
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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James Bunton on Apr 17th 2007
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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