CNS Computing

Basic CNS Student Service Inventory

Introduction

This document contains a listing of the basic services that are provided by the College of Natural Sciences System Administration to the students of the college. This by no means is a complete list of all services that are available. Nor does this list limit the extension or growth of the available services. This document was written as an introduction to outline a basic list of services a student should expect to receive through the CNS. If there is a question as to the availability of a service please contact manager@cns.uni.edu.

Each student account is setup to allow them the ability to publish web pages, and create interactive CGI applications. These are accessible through:

http://student.cns.uni.edu/~<username> and http://student.cns.uni.edu/~<username>/cgi-bin/

Shell	Each user is able to connect to and access their home directory through an interactive shell that can be logged into via SSH (on or off-campus) or Telnet (on-campus).
Samba	Samba is a service that allows Windows users to access files in their home directory (over the campus network) as a drive letter. Samba is only configured by default for CNS computer labs. If this feature is desired in a classroom or other location, the user needs to contact CNS Systems Administration via email at manager@cns.uni.edu and we will work with the user to configure these systems to use samba.
NFS	NFS allows Macintosh OS X users to access their home directories from over the campus network.
Apple Talk	Apple Talk is a service that allows Macintosh OS 9 users that ability to access their home directory from their desktop through the Chooser.

The user data on the servers is NOT backed up.

Students of CNS are able to login to CNS supported lab machines and have access to the data within their home directories from the lab machines.