Computer Science 461
Distributed Computing and Networking
Spring 1998, Princeton University
Account Setup and Usage
If you have signed up for this course, your account should have already been created on the Linux machines in the lab located in CS building 001 (basement). Your login id and password should be the same as those on the CIT machines.
We have set up all the necessary tools for this course including x-windows environment, Netscape, gcc, emacs, vi, and the other Linux utilities. To start your x-windows environment, type "startx."
The machines in our lab has only 1Gbytes of storage for all of you and about 1Gbytes of local storage on each machine. Please use your CIT directory to store your files. If accessing the CIT files is too slow over the network, you can use the local disk to store. In this case, please use /tmp temporarily and remove them before you leave the lab. Please note that the files on the machines in the lab are not backed up. Take your own risk when you use the local disk storage.
You can access you files on cit machines by typing "mount_cit". You will be prompted for your cit password. This mounts your cit home directory on ~/cit_home. If you have a CS account you can get to your CS file using the "mount_cs" command. You will be prompted for your CS NT password. This will mount your CS home directory on ~/cs_home.
You should use netscape to access the course page, read newsgroups and send and receive mail. Note: Please do not use a different mailer because the reply address will be "yourid@cs.princeton.edu" which is garbage in most cases.
To setup your netscape, go to "Options". Then select "Mail and News
Preferences".
In the "server" section,
In the "Identity" section
Then create a directory for mail by typing "mkdir ~/nsmail." Without this directory, you won't be able to use the netscape mailer.
COS 461 Staff