How to...
This page contains collected links from the "How to" sections of the top-level main category pages. Is is not an exhaustive list of all the procedural information on this site.
Accounts & passwords
- Obtain, use, and change the various types of passwords within SCS (overview).
- Use Jeeves to create or manage your Kerberos instances
- Get a password reset if you have forgotten it.
- Choose a good password.
AFS
See the AFS quick command reference for a brief summary of some AFS commands and the meaning of AFS permissions and special groups, and see the "Details" links in the "AFS concepts" section above for more detailed how-to information.
Quota tasks
Authentication tasks
- Change your AFS password.
- List your AFS tokens.
- Authenticate to AFS on Unix hosts.
- Perform cross-realm authentication.
- Authenticate daemons to AFS.
ACL & pts group tasks
- Display and set AFS ACLs.
- Make a directory on AFS private.
- Set the ACLs on a directory and all of its subdirectories.
- Make a "dropbox" directory in AFS.
- Create and manage AFS pts groups.
Volume-related tasks
Miscellaneous tasks
- Recover a file that you've deleted.
- Create a cross-platform bin directory.
- Troubleshoot some common AFS problems.
Backups & restores
Determine if your host is being backed up: Request a restore:Networking
- Fix the "Unable to resolve NetBIOS name" problem
- Access the Monolith server for printing or SCS-distributed software
- Use Netregister to request an IP address or add/change host registration information
- Configure your computer to obtain an IP address via DHCP
- Access the network using wireless networking
- Change your VPN and iPass client login ID and passwords
- Use a modem to access the network:
- Local dialup access and phone numbers.
- iPass, a faster replacement for 1-800 wide-area service.
- 1-800 service.
- Remotely access SCS services using VPN (Virtual Private Networking)
- Manage your Kerberos instances with the SCS Web-based interface
- Determine the hardware address of your computer
- Verify settings for your machine in the SCS Doman Naming System (DNS)
Printing
- Print from a Macintosh:
- Print from Unix/Linux hosts
- Print from Windows hosts
Security
- Compute securely:
- on Windows (including antivirus information)
- on Unix/Linux
- Protect yourself against internet hoaxes and scams
- Deal with adware and spyware on your PC
- Choose good passwords
- Protect your passwords when they go over the network
- Use Kerberized telnet to login securely to Facilitized Unix hosts
- Create an ftp Kerberos instance and use it for FTP
- Use SSH for secure login, file transfer, and network connections
- Configure your X server software to prevent snooping
- Deal with a Windows break-in
- Deal with a Unix/Linux break-in
Software licensing
- See what licensed software is available at SCS:
- By product.
- By vendor.
- By platform:
Support charges
- Add or remove support charges (retire machines, remove users from support, and make other adjustments -- CMU access only).
- View your support charges:
- SCS web reports. Use your Andrew ID and password to view these reports (off-site link, will open in a new browser window).
- Web reports users guide (CMU access only).
Unix/Linux support
See the Unix quick reference guide for some basic information on how to use Facilitized Unix/Linux hosts, and the platform-specific documentation for more detailed information.- Get root access on your machine.
- Perform local system administration tasks on Facilitized hosts.
- Get software for Unix/Linux hosts.
- Manage local software collections with Depot.
- Manage a misc collection.
- Enable anonymous FTP on your machine.
- Install and use VMware (virtual machine software) to run Windows on a Linux host.
- How to get started using Insure.
- Troubleshoot common platform-specific issues:
Web publishing
- Set up a personal web page in AFS [introduction]
- Use .htaccess files
- Restrict FTP and AFS access to web pages
- Password protect web pages using Apache basic authentication
- Generate a certificate-signing request (CSR)
- Password-protect web pages using WebISO
- Set up your own web server using the SCS httpd collection
- Set up your own web server using the wwwsrv collection [deprecated]
- Make files available via anonymous FTP
Windows support
- Request installation or upgrade of a PC operating system
- Obtain baseline packages and other Windows software
- Map local drives to network resources
- Keep your PC secure:
- General information
- Protect yourself against viruses
- What to do if you've been hacked
- Request and install an SSL certificate for IIS
- How to use PuTTY to connect to a Linux host.