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First, note that none of this is necessary on TIG's supported flavor of Linux, CSAIL Debian , which comes with Kerberos and nop OpenAFS already configured and ...

Configuring a WebDAV share on https://webdav.csail.mit.edu Background WebDAV, for Authoring and Versioning, is a protocol for performing arbitrary edits/modifications ...

Debian Installation Installation of CSAIL Debian typically requires a fresh install on a given machine; there is no mechanism for converting an existing Debian machine ...

List of Public Printers Here is the list of printers in the lab. You can directly download the drivers here. There are special drivers for 64bit, 7 32bit, 7 64bit ...

nop OpenAFS nop/ and Windows Prerequisites OpenAFS requires Kerberos for windows. TIG recommends the latest kfw package. As of this writing 3.2 is the latest ...

Configuring Kerberos Kerberos support is already part of the base OS X system. However, you do need to use a custom configuration file. 1. Download the CSAIL version ...

Printing Instructions For Macs Mac OS 10.5 or higher 1. Apple Menu System Preferences Hardware Print Fax If the lock in the lower left is closed ...

Mounting NFS volumes under Mac OS 10.5 Note: these instructions are valid only for Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard". 10.6 instructions are under development, but may involve ...

Windows 7 Release Notebook Windows 7 provides many minor tweaks to Windows Vista. From a first glance, those tweaks should make Win7 a viable alternative to Windows ...

Mac OS 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") Licensing and availability IS T now has OS 10.6 Snow Leopard available for new installs and upgrades for MIT Owned Machines. 1. First ...

Software Downloads, Licensing, and Support Get Software CSAIL's Software Distribution Center Packaged software installers available for use at CSAIL Access ...

Mailing Lists at CSAIL CSAIL uses Mailman, the GNU mailing list manager for mailing lists. Mailman is self service. As long as you have a CSAIL web certificate, ...

Getting certificates 1. authority certificate Installing this certificate, known as "Master CA", lets your browser recognize and trust secure CSAIL websites ...

Getting CSAIL certificates in Internet Explorer under Windows XP The following step by step procedure will allow you to get CSAIL certificates in Microsoft Internet ...

Workaround for installing CSAIL Certificates in Internet Explorer The below applies to Windows Vista, Windows 7, and similar/later versions (eg Server 2008). (Using ...

Connecting to the CSAILPrivate wireless network Description of the CSAILPrivate network In addition to the public ( nop StataCenter) wireless network, we also ...

Installing CSAIL Certificates in Google Chrome Google Chrome (Windows) Google Chrome uses the Windows read: Internet Explorer certificate store. Currently the ...

Trac is a software development oriented content management system, which includes a wiki, a bug tracking system, a Subversion repository browser, and some glue to ...

Web services Web server architecture Web hosting Creating Personal Web Pages Security recommendations for course directories Web server ...

Microsoft Windows Installation Installing Windows Vista/Info Installing Windows XP Kerberos and AFS/NFS Support Installing Kerberos For Windows ...

Overview CSAIL now has a private Jabber server. Jabber is also known as XMPP, the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol. The server allows participating Lab ...

Instructions for configuring Thunderbird. Download and install the latest version of Thunderbird from Thunderbird website. If presented with an "Import ...

CSAIL Network The CSAIL network connects all locations in the research areas of the Stata Center with gigabit Ethernet at a density of one port per 25 square feet ...

Email and Mailing Lists Jump to: CSAIL Email vs. MIT Email MIT students, faculty, and staff members receive an MIT email address and can read and send email via ...

HOT TOPICS Copiers Accounting Wireless network changes effective June 1 CSAIL Debian 5.0 (lenny) released Laptop Security ClusterComputing ...

AFS File System Services CSAIL uses the AFS distributed file system, invented at Carnegie Mellon, commercialized by Transarc (now IBM Pittsburgh labs), and maintained ...

Using Subversion at CSAIL What is Subversion? According to the Subversion home page, it is "a compelling replacement for CVS." Subversion is a version control system ...

Get Started and Connected This is the place for new users to quickly get started with your computing needs, as well as connected to the CSAIL network. There are many ...

HQ Wiki TIG Wiki Computing Home Operations Home Communications Home Get Started and Connected New Users Start Here Accounts and Security ...

Wireless Network: Stata and MITnet Interoperability We have made an arrangement with MIT IS T so that CSAIL members can register their laptop for wireless access ...

Statistics for TIG Web Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and uploads ...

WebDNS Users' Guide WebDNS is a system developed at CSAIL to allow Lab members to manage entries in the Lab's Domain Name System namespaces. Currently, WebDNS serves ...

Name Servers The TIG maintained DNS resolvers for use within CSAIL are ns0.csail.mit.edu through ns3.csail.mit.edu. /etc/resolv.conf should typically contain the ...

How to set up VNC to be accessed from outside CSAIL First, be clear about the problem you're trying to solve. Is VNC (originally for "Virtual Network Computing") ...

Web proxies You may wish to configure your Web browser to use a proxy. Using a proxy provides a small increase in privacy, because your real IP address will not appear ...

Port filtering The following ports are filtered on traffic coming into the CSAIL network: 179/tcp (BGP) 135/tcp (loc srv) 135/udp (loc srv) 137 ...

Changes to Stata Center wireless service Since the Stata Center opened, CSAIL has maintained two wireless networks, nop StataCenter and nop StataGuest . Effective ...

Configuring DHCP (to register for static DHCP, try dhreg) Configuring DHCP in Microsoft Windows XP To configure DHCP in Windows, go to Control Panel Network Connections ...

CSAIL host registration policy All devices on the CSAIL network must use registered IP addresses. An IP address is considered registered if there is a host name ...

The Darwin Project @ CSAIL The Project is a research collaboration involving CSAIL, CSBi, and Earth Planetary Sciences at MIT, along with the San Diego Supercomputer ...

DNS security @ CSAIL nop DNSsec is a technology for ensuring the authenticity of DNS information using public key signatures. Deployment of nop DNSsec is proceeding ...

Installing VPN Client The current version for CSAIL VPN client is 5.0. Users can download the VPN from SOFTWARE link to the left. You need a CSAIL client certificate ...

CSAIL Wireless The wireless network in the Stata Center consists of 71 Cisco Aironet access points operating at 54 Mbit/s with support for IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g ...

Installing The VPN Client For MacOSX Here are the instructions for installing VPN under MacOSX Download VPN client for MACOSX from software ditribution website ...

Meet TIG Administrative Jack Costanza Adwoa Gyimah Brempong Director Office: 32 272 Phone: 3 6703 jackc@csail.mit.edu ...

Get an Account Access to just about everything TIG has to offer is granted via your CSAIL Kerberos name and password. You obtain a user account which includes a Kerberos ...

Restricting access with .htaccess The below formulas can be included in an .htaccess files on any of the CSAIL standard Web servers (people, groups, projects, courses ...

Accessing NFS from Windows All NFS servers at CSAIL also run Samba services to serve their volumes to Windows clients as well. Thus, to access NFS mounts, your machine ...

Choosing Good Passwords Rationale The object when choosing a password is to make it as difficult as possible for a cracker to make educated guesses about what you ...

Email Forwarding You have a choice of reading @csail.mit.edu email in a number of locations and formats. Most people choose to read email directly from the CSAIL ...