USING HARVARD’S NETWORK WITH YOUR WINDOWS PC Copyright © 1999 The President and Fellows of Harvard College All Rights Reserved TABLE OF CONTENTS COMPUTING AT HARVARD ........................................................................................ 1 Connecting Your PC to the Harvard Network ............................................................... 1 Where to Go for Help .................................................................................................. 1 INSTALLING SOFTWARE ON YOUR PC ....................................................................... 2 PRINTING ............................................................................................................. 3 Printing Files from Lab Computers ............................................................................. 3 Printing Files from your Dorm Room ........................................................................... 3 CONNECTING TO YOUR FAS UNIX ACCOUNT FROM YOUR PC ........................................ 4 Changing your FAS Password .................................................................................... 4 MORE ON YOUR PRINTING BUDGET ........................................................................... 5 Checking Your FAS Laser Printing Budget.................................................................. 5 Adding Funds to Your FAS Laser Printing Budget ....................................................... 5 A Final Note on Printing .............................................................................................. 5 USING EMAIL........................................................................................................ 6 Email with Pine .......................................................................................................... 6 Email with Eudora .................................................................................................... 10 TRANSFERRING FILES VIA FTP ............................................................................. 13 Starting an FTP session ........................................................................................... 13 Transferring a file ...................................................................................................... 13 Managing files and directories .................................................................................. 13 Quieting WS_FTP .................................................................................................... 14 THE WORLD WIDE WEB ..................................................................................... 14 Creating Web Pages on FAS ................................................................................... 14 Useful Web Pages from FAS Computer Services ..................................................... 14 Other Useful Web Sites at Harvard and Beyond ........................................................ 16 IN CONCLUSION .................................................................................................. 16 Using Harvard’s Network with your Windows PC The Harvard Computer Society COMPUTING AT HARVARD Harvard provides a wide range of computing resources to all students. A state-of-the-art high speed network connects computer labs, dorm rooms, and central computing resources, allowing you to access Harvard’s facilities from many points across campus. Every student receives an account on Harvard’s Unix login cluster, fas.harvard.edu (fas). You can connect to fas from your own computer or from any one of the public computers located across campus. You can use the network to access the Internet, run software from Harvard’s servers, to print to any of the many public printers, and to transfer files between computers, among other things. Whether it is to do research on the Web for an award winning paper, to send photos home to parents, or to check for email from their friends, nearly every Harvard student is in constant touch with the online world. Connecting Your PC to the Harvard Network The FAS Computer Services Guide To Network Connections (The Pink Book)is a comprehensive guide to setting up your computer, your network connection, and your Unix account. Copies of the Pink Book are distributed during new student registration, in addition to being available at the Help Desk in Science Center B-14 at all times. For detailed information on connecting your computer to the network, the Pink Book is the authoritative reference. In brief, however, the steps of networking your computer are as follows: • Obtain an Ethernet adapter card for your computer. Ethernet cards may be purchased during the Freshman Computer Fair or at the TPC Showroom at 1751 Cambridge Street. Newer machines may contain a built- in Ethernet port; look on the back of your computer for something which looks like an oversized phone jack. If you think you might have a built-in Ethernet card but are not sure, contact a User Assistant as described below. • Fill out the FAS Network Connection Worksheet in the Pink Book. This involves gathering several key pieces of information you will need in the next step. In particular you will need to obtain the data jack number that is written on the Ethernet wall jack you intend to plug your computer into, and the Ethernet address of your Ethernet card. An Ethernet address is a series of 12 characters that should look something like 01-23-45-AB-CD-EF; in most cases it will be physically written on the card itself. • Run the NetConnect program. This can be done from any computers which are already networked, such as those in the Science Center. Using Netscape, visit http://www.fas.harvard.edu/network/netconnect/ and follow the on-screen instructions, filling in the information from your FAS Network Connection Worksheet. • Activate your FAS Email Account. This is done by telnetting to fas and logging in with the username and password you received when you arrived at campus. The first time you log in, you will have to answer a short quiz on computer rules and regulations. • Once you have both run NetConnect and activated your FAS Email Account, you should expect an email informing you that your network connection request has been processed. It may take up to three to five business days for this to occur, although it can be much faster at times. • Once you receive this email, you may install your Ethernet card into your computer and plug it into the wall jack. Do not plug your computer into the jack before receiving this email. • Finally, run the FAS Network Installer Disk to set up the necessary software. This disk is available from the Help Desk in the Science Center if you did not receive a copy when you arrived on campus. This will set up your computer to access the network and will install several basic software packages, including Netscape Navigator, SecureCRT, Eudora, and others. -1- Using Harvard’s Network with your Windows PC The Harvard Computer Society Where to Go for Help For help at any point in this process, contact FAS Computer Services by visiting the Help Desk in Science Center B-14, by emailing [email protected], or calling 495-9000. The Help Desk is located in the Terminal Room of the Science Center. This is room B-14, which is at the bottom of the staircase down to the basement. The Help Desk is on the right wall, and is staffed during most of the day to answer all your computing questions. User Assistants are also available to come to your room and help you connect your computer to the network, or resolve any other problems. User Assistants, more commonly known as UAs, are a small army of undergrads who live in the Houses and Freshman dorms and are employed to help you resolve computing troubles. Each House and Yard area has its own email address for the local UAs—the freshman addresses are elm-help@fas, crimson- help@fas, and ivy-help@fas, one for each of the three freshman Yards—and they can also be reached by simply emailing help@fas, or going to the Help Desk and asking to set up an in-room appointment. INSTALLING SOFTWARE ON YOUR PC Harvard provides a selection of software installation tools that you may use to install programs on your own PC. These programs have been licensed by Harvard so that you may legally install them without violating rules against copying software. These programs can be installed from a special server called Get_Connected. The FAS Computer Services Network Installer Disk will launch the Get_Connected installer when you run it, and it will also add an item to your start menu that will enable you to launch the installer again should you so desire. If you cannot find this shortcut, you can open the Get_Connected server directly: Open the Network Neighborhood by double-clicking on the icon on your desktop. If Get_Connected appears in the list of computers there, double click on it to open it. If it does not, use the Start Menu’s Find Computer feature to locate it, and then double click to open it. If prompted for a username and password, enter guest as the username and leave passwork blank. In the Get_Connected computer, double-click on the folder called softpc to open it. (softpc stands for “Software for PCs”) Inside this folder you will find an icon for the FAS Software Installer. Double-click this icon to start the installation procedure. The Get_Connected software installer will present you with a menu from which you can choose different applications to install. The software is divided into two categories, Internet Software and general Windows Software.