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Igor: /* Using the Macintosh Finder */

2015-04-20T22:01:17Z

‎Using the Macintosh Finder

Igor: /* Connecting to the Network */

2015-04-20T21:56:24Z

‎Connecting to the Network

Igor at 21:48, 20 April 2015

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169.229.58.63: /* Using the Macintosh Finder */

2009-09-09T04:41:12Z

‎Using the Macintosh Finder

169.229.58.63: /* Using the Macintosh Finder */

2009-07-01T22:28:57Z

‎Using the Macintosh Finder

Ogus: /* Using the Macintosh Finder */

2009-06-30T22:22:03Z

‎Using the Macintosh Finder

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Ogus: /* Using the Macintosh Finder */

2009-02-18T05:58:45Z

‎Using the Macintosh Finder

Ogus: /* Using the Macintosh Finder */

2009-02-17T16:54:02Z

‎Using the Macintosh Finder

Ogus: /* Using the Macintosh Finder */

2009-02-17T08:02:15Z

‎Using the Macintosh Finder

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 ===Using the Macintosh Finder===
-There are several protocols that will allow you to access and manipulate files on our unix network via the Macintosh finder.  Probably the easiest to use is "Netatalk," which unfortunately is not very robustly supported and may be turned off at some point in the future.  It already presents various problems: it can be very slow, and sometimes will fail to copy files in either direction for mysterious reasons.   At present you can use it from any Macintosh computer, either in  your office or from home or another location.    After this is done, connecting is easy:  just select "Connect to server" in the "Go" menu of the Finder.  This will bring up the "Connect to Server" dialog box.  Enter "afp://login.math.berkeley.edu".  You should then be greeted with another dialog box asking for your password---your standard unix password should work.  Once the connection goes through,  a second dialog will appear, asking you to select a volume to mount.  Choose the one with your unix user name.  At this point your unix home directory should appear as a volume on your Macintosh.  Be sure to unmount the volume when you are finished with it.
+There are several protocols that will allow you to access and manipulate files on our Unix network via the Macintosh finder. Probably the easiest to use is Netatalk, which unfortunately is not very robustly supported and may be turned off at some point in the future. It already presents various problems: it can be very slow, and sometimes will fail to copy files in either direction for mysterious reasons. At present you can use it from any Macintosh computer, either in your office or from home or another location. After this is done, connecting is easy: just select "Connect to server" in the "Go" menu of the Finder. This will bring up the "Connect to Server" dialog box. Enter "afp://login.math.berkeley.edu". You should then be greeted with another dialog box asking for your password &mdash; your standard Unix password should work. Once the connection goes through, a second dialog will appear, asking you to select a volume to mount. Choose the one with your Unix user name. At this point your Unix home directory should appear as a volume on your Macintosh. Be sure to unmount the volume when you are finished with it.
 ==Using Unix commands==

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 ==Connecting to the Network==
-In order to manage your account, you first have to connect to the network. If you are in Evans, you can log onto one of the departmental computers (such as the ones in 1015 annex or 838) and instantly be on your math department account. Note that the only computers allowed to be physically connected to the network are the departmental ones. Therefore, if you want to connect from another computer, such as your laptop or home computer, you need to connect remotely. There are two kinds of programs that can connect your computer remotely, SSH and SFTP.
+In order to manage your account, you first have to connect to the network. If you are in Evans, you can log onto one of the departmental computers (such as thin clients in 744 and public printer rooms) and instantly be on your math department account. Note that the only computers allowed to be physically connected to the network are the departmental ones. Therefore, if you want to connect from another computer, such as your laptop or home computer, you need to connect remotely. There are two kinds of programs that can connect your computer remotely, SSH and SFTP.
 ===SSH===
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 SSH stands for Secure Shell. For those who have used Telnet before, it is practically the same program except that is has encryption to securely transfer data. The department server no longer accepts connection requests from Telnet clients, so you have to use SSH if you want to connect.
-SSH basically is a program that mimics the Terminal windows found on our department's computers. It is useful for editing files, changing file permissions and running basic programs like text editors or Pine email program. With a more elaborate setup, you can actually run programs such as web browsers remotely through SSH (but be warned, it can be an extremely slow process!).
+SSH basically is a program that mimics the Terminal windows found on our department's computers. It is useful for editing files, changing file permissions and running basic programs like text editors or Pine email program. With a more elaborate setup, you can actually run programs such as web browsers remotely through SSH (but be warned, it can be a slow process!).
 * Windows: you need to download an SSH client. One option is [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/  Putty]. Then use the SSH client to connect to <code>login.math.berkeley.edu</code>, using your usual departmental username and password.
 * Mac: you already have SSH installed with your operating system. Just go to Utilities and click on Terminal. In the terminal window, type: <code>ssh -l &lt;username&gt; login.math.berkeley.edu</code> The <code>-l &lt;username&gt;</code> part indicates to SSH that you want to log in with that specific username; if you don't include this text, then SSH will automatically use the account name on your computer (which probably won't be your departmental username).
-* Unix: you probably have SSH preinstalled as well. Just open a terminal window and type in the same thing Mac users do.
+* Linux/Unix: you probably have SSH preinstalled as well. Just open a terminal window and type in the same thing Mac users do.
-Professor Vojta has the following [http://math.berkeley.edu/computing/vojta/ssh.html reference].
+Professor Vojta has the following [https://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/ssh.html reference].
 ===SFTP===

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 ===Using the Macintosh Finder===
-There are several protocols that will allow you to access and manipulate files on our unix network via the Macintosh finder.  Probably the easiest to use is "Netatalk," which unfortunately is not very robustly supported and may be turned off at some point in the future.  It already presents various problems: it can be very slow, and sometimes will fail to copy files in either direction for mysterious reasons.   At present you can use it from any Macintosh computer, either in  your office or from home or another location.    After this is done, connecting is easy:  just select "Connect to server" in the "Go" menu of the Finder.  This will bring up the "Connect to Server" dialog box.  Enter "afp://blue2.math.berkeley.edu".  You should then be greeted with another dialog box asking for your password---your standard unix password should work.  Once the connection goes through,  a second dialog will appear, asking you to select a volume to mount.  Choose the one with your unix user name.  At this point your unix home directory should appear as a volume on your Macintosh.  Be sure to unmount the volume when you are finished with it.
+There are several protocols that will allow you to access and manipulate files on our unix network via the Macintosh finder.  Probably the easiest to use is "Netatalk," which unfortunately is not very robustly supported and may be turned off at some point in the future.  It already presents various problems: it can be very slow, and sometimes will fail to copy files in either direction for mysterious reasons.   At present you can use it from any Macintosh computer, either in  your office or from home or another location.    After this is done, connecting is easy:  just select "Connect to server" in the "Go" menu of the Finder.  This will bring up the "Connect to Server" dialog box.  Enter "afp://login.math.berkeley.edu".  You should then be greeted with another dialog box asking for your password---your standard unix password should work.  Once the connection goes through,  a second dialog will appear, asking you to select a volume to mount.  Choose the one with your unix user name.  At this point your unix home directory should appear as a volume on your Macintosh.  Be sure to unmount the volume when you are finished with it.
 ==Using Unix commands==

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 There are several protocols that will allow you to access and manipulate files on our unix network via the Macintosh finder.  Probably the easiest to use is "Netatalk," which unfortunately is not very robustly supported and may be turned off at some point in the future.  It already presents various problems: it can be very slow, and sometimes will fail to copy files in either direction for mysterious reasons.   At present you can use it from any Macintosh computer, either in  your office or from home or another location.    After this is done, connecting is easy:  just select "Connect to server" in the "Go" menu of the Finder.  This will bring up the "Connect to Server" dialog box.  Enter "afp://blue2.math.berkeley.edu".  You should then be greeted with another dialog box asking for your password---your standard unix password should work.  Once the connection goes through,  a second dialog will appear, asking you to select a volume to mount.  Choose the one with your unix user name.  At this point your unix home directory should appear as a volume on your Macintosh.  Be sure to unmount the volume when you are finished with it.
-Another option is to use SMB (Samba), which seems to be more robust than netatalk.   The basic method is the same, but enter "smb://gold.math.berkeley.edu" in the "Connect to Server" dialog box,  There is an additional wrinkle, however:  SMB connections are not allowed from off campus computers.  To get around this, you must use the Virtual Private Network (VPN) client provided by Campus Central Computing.  Actually the VPN is useful in other contexts too, for example to connect to library resources without going through the web proxies.  Your SMB password need not be the same as your unix password.  Ask a system administrator to assign you one, and then change it.  To do this, you must log in to panda.  You need to ssh to panda.math.berkeley.edu as described above.  Then use the following command:  "smbpasswd -r gold"  and follow the prompts.  Beware that if you enter the wrong password or forget to type "-r gold", it will simply say "NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED" without telling you why,
+Another option is to use SMB (Samba), which seems to be more robust than netatalk.   The basic method is the same, but enter "smb://gold.math.berkeley.edu" in the "Connect to Server" dialog box,  There is an additional wrinkle, however:  SMB connections are not allowed from off campus computers.  To get around this, you must use the Virtual Private Network (VPN) client provided by Campus Central Computing.  Select the full tunnel option. Actually the VPN is useful in other contexts too, for example to connect to library resources without going through the web proxies.  Your SMB password need not be the same as your unix password.  Ask a system administrator to assign you one, and then change it.  To do this, you must log in to panda.  You need to ssh to panda.math.berkeley.edu as described above.  Then use the following command:  "smbpasswd -r gold"  and follow the prompts.  Beware that if you enter the wrong password or forget to type "-r gold", it will simply say "NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED" without telling you why,
 ==Using Unix commands==

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 ===Using the Macintosh Finder===
-There are several protocols that will allow you to access and manipulate files on our unix network via the Macintosh finder.  Probably the easiest to use is "Netatalk,"
+There are several protocols that will allow you to access and manipulate files on our unix network via the Macintosh finder.  Probably the easiest to use is "Netatalk," which unfortunately is not very robustly supported and may be turned off at some point in the future.  It already presents various problems: it can be very slow, and sometimes will fail to copy files in either direction for mysterious reasons.   At present you can use it from any Macintosh computer, either in  your office or from home or another location.    After this is done, connecting is easy:  just select "Connect to server" in the "Go" menu of the Finder.  This will bring up the "Connect to Server" dialog box.  Enter "afp://blue2.math.berkeley.edu".  You should then be greeted with another dialog box asking for your password---your standard unix password should work.  Once the connection goes through,  a second dialog will appear, asking you to select a volume to mount.  Choose the one with your unix user name.  At this point your unix home directory should appear as a volume on your Macintosh.  Be sure to unmount the volume when you are finished with it.
-Another option is to use SMB (Samba).  The basic method is the same, but enter "smb://gold.math.berkeley.edu" in the "Connect to Server" dialog box,  There is an additional wrinkle, however:  SMB connections are not allowed from off campus computers.  To get around this, you must use the Virtual Private Network (VPN)
+Another option is to use SMB (Samba), which seems to be more robust than netatalk.   The basic method is the same, but enter "smb://gold.math.berkeley.edu" in the "Connect to Server" dialog box,  There is an additional wrinkle, however:  SMB connections are not allowed from off campus computers.  To get around this, you must use the Virtual Private Network (VPN) client provided by Campus Central Computing.  Actually the VPN is useful in other contexts too, for example to connect to library resources without going through the web proxies.  Your SMB password need not be the same as your unix password.  Ask a system administrator to assign you one, and then change it.  To do this, you must log in to panda.  You need to ssh to panda.math.berkeley.edu as described above.  Then use the following command:  "smbpasswd -r gold"  and follow the prompts.  Beware that if you enter the wrong password or forget to type "-r gold", it will simply say "NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED" without telling you why,
 ==Using Unix commands==

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 * <code>cd &lt;pathname&gt;</code> '''C'''hange '''d'''irectory to the one given in &lt;pathname&gt;. This command has a very fine distinction between absolute paths and relative paths. If the pathname does not begin with / then it signifies that you are talking about subdirectories of the current one. If it does begin with / then you are specifying the path from the root of the directory tree.
 * <code>cd ..</code> Go up one level in the hierarchy.
 * <code>cd</code> With no argument, this command returns you to your home directory.

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 which unfortunately is not very robustly supported, and may be turned off at some point in the future.  At present you can use it from any Macintosh computer, either in  your office or from home or another location.   Your standard unix password may work, otherwise you will need to contact the system administrators.    After this is done, connecting is easy:  just select "Connect to server" in the "Go" menu of the Finder.  This will bring up the "Connect to Server" dialog box.  Enter
 "blue2.math.berkeley.edu".  You should then be greeted with another dialog box asking for your password.  Once the connection goes through,  a second
-dialog will appear, asking you to select a volume to mount  Choose the one with your unix user name.  At this point your unix home directory should appear as a volume on your Macintosh, called, unfortunately "default."  Be sure to unmount the volume when you are finished with it.
+dialog will appear, asking you to select a volume to mount.  Choose the one with your unix user name.  At this point your unix home directory should appear as a volume on your Macintosh.  Be sure to unmount the volume when you are finished with it.
 ==Using Unix commands==