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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 ...

Thunderbird for Mac OS Open Thunderbird. Go to Tools Account Settings Add Account. Following are the screenshots for configuring Thunderbird as IMAP client. ...

Configuring Email Client Under MAC Choosing Email client at CSAIL. CSAIL Email uses IMAP protocol which keeps your active mail on the server so that you can easily ...

Choosing Good Passwords Rationale Automated password crackers can, and do, guess thousands of potential passwords per second in attempts to break into CSAIL user ...

Accounts and Security CSAIL Accounts New user setup/orientation Changing passwords, addresses, phone numbers, etc Choosing Good Passwords ...

Secure Web resources generally don't accept Kerberos credentials directly. Obtaining Web Certificates (below) is necessary for authentication to CSAIL secure websites ...

HQ Wiki TIG Wiki Computing Home Operations Home Communications Home New User Setup/Orientation Accounts Certificates Email ...

Operating Systems Support By far, the most common operating systems in use at CSAIL are Debian GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Apple OS X. We provide some level ...

nop OpenAFS on nop RedHat Linux Note: The following instructions are provided by dcm, not tig, so contact him with questions or comments. Fedora Core 3 Instructions ...

nop OpenAFS on (k)Ubuntu Linux (and possibly other (non athena) Debian linux dists) These instructions are for: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (version 8.10) Install ...

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 ...

nop OpenAFS nop/ and Windows Known Issues 1. If you need access to Athena AFS and/or to use Athena Kerberos tickets (eg for SAPgui) at the same time that you ...

CSAIL/Athena Cross realm Authentication CSAIL and Athena have implemented cross realm authentication. This means that authenticated CSAIL users can access some Athena ...

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 ...

Emergency Contact Information TIG offers computing, networking, and facilities support only. For medical, police, fire, and other life/safety issues, please contact ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...