LabGuide
From Electron Club, Glasgow
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Helpful Tips
- Take note that the CCA network doesn't permit FTPing to the outside world.
- There is no "official" wireless network, but often an open network can be found. Use these at your own risk.
Names and such
The Linux computers all have names to do with happiness:
ecstacy - left hand side IBM
pleasure - middle IBM
euphoria - right hand side IBM
The main user account and password on these machines is 'smiley'.
If you are setting up a new machine, please consider giving it a similar name and spread the joy ....
Network hub for laptops
If you need to provide network access via ethernet cable to people who have brought their own laptops, use the small blue Netgear router that is sitting on top of the network hubs. This can be placed on the round table and connected via the long etehrnet cable. Plug one end of the long cable into one of the big hubs and the other into one of the ports of the blue router. Do not use the port labelled 'internet', use one of the numbered ports, such as 1 or 8. Laptop users can then plug their own machines into one of the other numbered ports. Network addresses are provided via DHCP.
the blue router can be sat in the centre of the big table with the hole in the middle, and people plug into around there.
Running pure.dyne
The Linux machines 'pleasure' and 'euphoria' have the latest version of pure.dyne installed.
To run pure.dyne:
1. if the machine is on, shut it down, or restart it
2. boot the machine, when the message 'GRUB loading ...' appears press the ESCAPE key, a list will appear with 'pur:dyne!' as the last item
3. use the up and down arrow keys to step through the list and highlight 'pure:dyne!', then hit the ENTER or RETURN key, pure.dyne will start to boot ...
4. enjoy the added goodness
Accessing electronclub.org from the lab
If you are having trouble accessing the Electron Club website from inside the lab, or have added a new machine to the setup, you will need to update the /etc/hosts file to include the following:
192.168.2.11 faraday www.electronclub.org mail.electronclub.org
This should be added in usually as the third line after the entries for 127.0.0.1. Note: you will need to sudo to edit /etc/hosts.
Shared folders
SAMBA based shared folders have been set up on the blue IBM machines. This folder is called 'shared' and is in the home directory of each machine, ie: /home/smiley/shared.
To access this from another machine, you currently have to mount these from the commandline, ie:
sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=smiley,password=smiley //10.0.2.22/share_ecstacy /media/share_ecstacy
enter your user password when asked.
The IP number may change for different machines. The share folders are named 'share_' followed by the names of the machines. The machines with shared folders are:
ecstacy - left hand side IBM
pleasure - middle IBM
euphoria - right hand side IBM
Once the folder is mounted you can access it through the file manager (thunar): click on 'filesystem' then go to the folder called 'media' and you will see the remote shared folders in there, 'share_ecstacy', 'share_pleasure', 'share_euphoria' (obviously the one for the machine you are on will NOT be mounted there ....). If you wish to access them from the command line:
cd /media/share_ecstacy
cd /media/share_pleasure
cd /media/share_euphoria
