Introduction
We would like to welcome you to our computer labs, and hope you find them useful and pleasant to use. The labs are available to students taking any course offered by Computer Science, Theoretical and Applied Mathematics, and other related cross-department and research uses (see faculty). There have been many changes and improvements over the summer, so please read this carefully.
Physical locationThe labs are physically located in the Arts and Sciences Building in the following rooms:
Room 241 – Teaching Lab. Available to students for general use when classes are not being taught, but students not in the class must leave before a class begins. Machines are dual core Intel which can also dual boot between Windows XP and KUbuntu Linux. Schedules will be posted in advance, if at all possible.
Room 254 – This room is used as a lab on one half, and a general purpose area on the other. The configuration of these machines is identical to 241 except that some machines are single processor. Some classes are taught here, and meetings are also held here, so be aware of this. Schedules will be posted in advance, if at all possible.
The account you have been granted logs you into the Windows side of the lab machines only, and gives you access to our eight remote access windows machines (available by campus or VPN network RDP connection; look on the windows communications menu). These remote access windows machines are named winremote1.cs.uakron.edu and numerically increasing to winremote8.cs.uakron.edu. A status web page is planned, but not yet implemented. Please be sure to log off these systems before disconnecting or the session will lock on your account.
You may also use our remote access linux machines with the same password, which are available from anywhere in the world. Their names are: wirth, berry and knuth (append .cs.uakron.edu for the full network name). The remote access linux machines will accept ssh and scp connections, and use the same file space as your windows Z: drive, so moving files securely is easy.
Please set your password using the method your instructor has told you about (reminder: click here), before you attempt to log in. Please pay close attention to the instructions on those web pages because sometimes it takes a few days to get the accounts set up, and we do have rules that you must accept in order to use our facilities.NOTE: Firefox 3 complains about self-signed certificates. This is normal and will also happen when you try to access our submission server (submit.cs.uakron.edu). You should go through the steps to allow our certificates. Pay close attention to what the browser is telling you.
The linux side of our lab workstations is handled differently. If you have a need to use the linux side of our workstations, or our more advanced department capabilities, please see your instructor or faculty advisor first, then the lab manager in room 233 if your faculty contact approves.
More information on changing passwords can be found here.
File SpaceWhen you log into Windows, you get a Z: drive, which is your home directory, and a T: drive. Your Z: drive should be where you keep all your files, and it is backed up. The T: drive is where your instructors distribute class materials, and is read-only.
The lab machines are re-imaged often, so drive Z: is the only place your files will not vanish. You have been warned.
(You can also use a flash drive that you are free to supply; you can plug them into one of the USB ports on the side of the monitors and windows will automatically make them available to you).
Sunday Access
The Arts and Sciences (CAS) building is closed on Sundays. To get Sunday access to the labs, please bring a $10 deposit to the Computer Science Department office during normal business hours. You will be given a key card for the semester to get into the building on Sundays.
This card must be turned in before the last day of finals week in order to get your deposit back!!!
More InformationMore detailed and up-to-date lab information will be posted here.
RulesYou are responsible for abiding by the lab rules (to which you had to agree in order to set your password), and any changes and additions posted both in the labs, and at http://cs.uakron.edu/labs/rules.
IN CASE OF TROUBLEIn the event of any problems with the machines, please let us know by advising your instructor, and/or by contacting the lab manager. If we don't know about a problem, we can't fix it
Your lab manager is: Chuck Van Tilburg; CAS233, x7130, cvantil@uakron.eduThank you for reading this, and we hope you enjoy using the labs!