[Csci1301] Re: your mail(should be firewall access)

[John Howland]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, John Howland wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, John Howland wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Wiseman, Heather wrote:
> > 
> > > Dr. Howland,
> > > How do I access and link up my webpage if I am off campus?
> > 
> > Heather, you access your web page by using a web browser
> > (IE, Mozilla, Safari, etc. depending on machine and OS)
> > and go to:
> > 
> > http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~hwiseman
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean by "link up".  If you mean
> > "How can I create/change my cs web page", University
> > firewall provides a barrier which makes this complicated.
> > 
> > Here are the steps:
> > 
> > 1)  Install putty on your machine (I'm assuming you are a Win
> > user.  It is easier if you use Linux or Mac OS X on your machine).
> > 
> > Putty may be downloaded from:
> > 
> > http://www.cs.trinity.edu/ftp/pub/winxp-software/Putty/054/putty-0.54-installer.exe

There was a security alert about version 0.54 putty, so the above link
no longer works, but has been replaced by:

http://www.cs.trinity.edu/ftp/pub/winxp-software/Putty/055/putty-0.55-installer.exe

> > 
> > 2)  Access http://www.cs.trinity.edu/ip-no.cgi and send me the
> > ip number provided by your internet supplier so that I can enable
> > a ssh (secure shell) hole in our firewall for your machine.
> > 
> > 3)  Using the newly installed putty program, Connect to our
> > firewall machine (besure the select SSH)
> > 
> > Bianca.CS.Trinity.Edu
> > 
> > Once you are logged into Bianca, you should use the ssh program
> > to login to the Xena machine of your choice where you can run J
> > or use an editor to edit your web page or write lab reports.
> > 
> > This is done by using the command
> > 
> > ssh xena01 
> > 
> > on Bianca.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the editor program gedit requires that your machine
> > run an X server (a program you probably don't have unless you have
> > a Linux or MacOS X machine--the program exists, but costs $$ unless
> > you have Linux or MacOS X where it is included as a part of the
> > operating system to make it easy to interact with non-Win systems which
> > is something Redmond doesn't seem to want to do).
> > 
> > The solution is to learn (not hard to do) how to use the editor
> > vi .  vi works in a normat terminal window.  See:
> > 
> > http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs101l/101.outline/vi-doc.html
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs101l/101.outline/vi-ref.html
> > 
> > for information on using vi.
> > 
> > Other vi links include:
> > 
> > http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~bhoward/vi/
> > http://www.thomer.com/vi/vi.html
> > http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Editors/Vi/
> > http://www.unix-manuals.com/tutorials/vi/vi-in-10-1.html
> > http://www.unix-manuals.com/
> 
> I should have added:
> 
> http://www.truth.sk/vim/vimbook-OPL.pdf
> 
> for a pdf version of the main book on vi (aka vim)
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > Thanks,
> > >  Heather
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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