Guide for New Academic Member

​Guide for New Academic Member

 

The following guide is a brief help page to get acquainted with the computation parts of the department

 

1. Note that there are two separate DOMAINS:

The domain of the Computer Science – CS (our department)

The domain of the Computation Center – CC (all the university)

These domains are separated and are accessed independently, for example you can have a

different home page storage areas under each of the domains. The department services only

the CS domain.

 

2. HomePage's / Departments :

                        Ben-Gurion University -  http://www.bgu.ac.il

                        Computer Science        -  http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il

                        Mathematics                 -  http://www.math.cs.bgu.ac.il

                        Software Engineering   -  http://www.se.bgu.ac.il

 

3. Computer Science User Account’s & Password’s :

     There are two approaches  of operating system in our domain (most of the department computers

     have both operating systems on them):

Unix based O.S.(SunOS , Linux)

Windows based O.S.

     Each of these system’s require username & passwords which are managed separately.

     First – the new member have to contact the secretary of the CS Lab’s for his/hers username,

                and the opening procedure of the new account under the Unix base O.S.’s .

     Second – for Windows based O.S. accounts access the following link:              http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/help/ntpasswd.html

                     or follow the next step’s:

Go to our homepage http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il

In "Help Desk" choose "Windows Account".

               

 

4. Mail – WebMail :

    There are the popular mail interface used in our department:

WebMail – a web based E-Mailer which can be accessed from anywhere and under most browsers.

     Option 1 -  http://webmail.cs.bgu.ac.il/

     Option 2 – under our homeage - http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/

 

 

Outlook (window's based) -

           When you run Outlook Express first time you must configure it as following:

               Display Name :                       your_name

               E-mail address:                       your_e-address (username@cs.bgu.ac.il)

               My incoming mail server is :  IMAP

               Incoming mail server:             imap.cs.bgu.ac.il

               Outgoing mail server:             mail.cs.bgu.ac.il

               Account name:                       your_user_name

               Password:                               your_unix_password

 

           You will see your mailbox from Windows and from Unix and deleting some massage from one

           of them will delete it in another too.

 

pine (Unix/Linux) – login onto one of our severs or linux machines and run pine.

 

5. Printer's – all of the department's printers are connected through the web and print jobs can be

                       sent to each of the following:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you are printing under linux/unix the print command are:

        a. lpr  -P Printername   file.name   (printing only .ps files) 

        b. Printername –switch file.name

            Switches : -pdf (for pdf files) , –ps (for ps files) .ASCII no switch needed.

 

        For example : lpz1d –pdf article.pdf  .

        This command will print the file article.pdf  to printer lpz0d which is

         located on the 1^st floor in building 58 in room 118.

 

6. Quota's / Backup - our quota are dived onto 3 different storage areas:

            a. 600MB –  storage on Netapp. (the data is backed up on different level's for up to 3 month

and can be accessed from anywhere).

The first backup , which is accessibly by the user , is called snapshot.

You can access it by entering the directory in which the file or directory

That you want to restore and type     cd .snapshot   . In this directory will appear

differential backup's. (hourly.0, hourly.1,…, nightly.0, nightly.1,..., weekly.0,...)

hourly.0 – changes made during the last 4 hours.

hourly.1 – changes made during the period of 4-8 hours ago, and so on.

nightly.0 – snapshot of last night.

nightly.1 – snapshot of two nights ago, and so on.

 

b. raid server – large storage area but backed up once a day, so you will be able restore files only day after. Location - /freespace/segel/username .

 

 

7. Rdesktop- opens a windows (or windows based programs like office) environment

                      on top of unix base O.S.'s.

 

    Running : logon to your local linux machine )

                    and execute rdesktop oden or rdesktop csts1 or rdesktop thor.

                    (oden , csts1 and thor are our rdesktop servers)

 

 

8. HELP – there are two main ways to receive help through the web.

 

            a. Writing an e-mail to help@cs.bgu.ac.il with as wide as possible explanation of the problem.

 

            b. Browsing to our F.A.Q site - got our homepage – http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il and click on the

                link as shown below.

 

 

                                               

 

9. Browsers & Proxy’s –

       There are two main different type of connections setting for browsers.

a.       Direct connection – meaning the local computer (or server ) searches the web.

b.      Proxy connection – uses one of the proxy computers which do the search the web

                                       and return their founding to users computer, this option is very

                                       important for usage of scientific article viewing.

Setting direct/proxy connections:

a.       explorer (windows) – after running explorer click on  , this will open a sub menu.

       In the sub menu choose  , in the  next window

       choose , afterwards  .

       for direct connection mark - 

       for proxy connection mark - 

                                                      and type the address above.

b.      mozilla&netscape – after running mozilla  , this will open a sub menu.

  In the sub menu choose  , in the next window

  choose , afterwards click on  .

  for direct connection mark - 

  for proxy connection mark - 

                                                and type the address above.

        You can configure each part of the proxy manually by setting the proxy server

        as lvs.cs.bgu.ac.il and setting the port as 8081 (for ftp choose port 21).

 

10. XLS Transformer:

           

            Go to link http://frodo.cs.bgu.ac.il/cs_service/xlstransformer.html

            Or in cs_servises choose "XLS Transformer".

            In following window enter you username and password and choose "lecturer".

            *    First you need to create a XLS file:

                        In following window

                        

Choose course (semester, year, course name, course number – all in one line) and click on "create XLS".

                        In form that appears enter your Unix password and press "Convert".

The XLS file will be created in your account, in ~/XLS/ directory, file name will be last four digits of courses number.

In the file are 13 fields, during the semester you can use this file and add columns to the right, but DO NOT DELETE or CHANGE order of columns

·        Loading file:

After the test fill the final grades in XLS file. If this grades are for moad a, fill the grades in column H ("maod a"), if a student did not take the test his raw should be empty, a grade can be either code like 800 or 700.

To submit the grades choose  , use the browse to point to XLS file, choose moed and enter exam date and time, enter your Unix password and press "convert".

In the XLS directory will be created txt files with all data and pdf file with grades. Both files should be transferred to Sigalit. 

·        Check XLS: It checks correspondents between XLS file and txt file data.

In order to check file choose XLS file (with grates) and select moed.

If something wrong will appear notice.

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