The Department Networks

Accounts are available to all faculty, staff, and graduate students in the department. Visitors and others associated with the department may also request accounts. Questions about computers or accounts should be sent to consult@math.uic.edu. These questions will be read and dealt with by the graduate student assistant or the systems administrator.

There are several networks of machines and types of accounts. The largest groups are the Unix network including math.uic.edu, the MathLab network of FreeBSD machines in room 200 SEO, and a network of Win/DOS and Macintosh PC's.

An account on the Sun network allows you to log in to the public machines in room 736 and to math.uic.edu, the math dialup machine. Mail sent to math.uic.edu arrives in these accounts.

An account on the MathLab network allows you to log on to the machines in room 200. If you are teaching in this lab or using your account mainly for Web pages you may want an account on these machines. Problems or requests related to this network can be sent to consult@math.uic.edu.

The PC network consists mainly of faculty and staff office machines. There is a departmental Samba server from which PC users may access the files on their Unix account, and which is backed up to tape six nights a week. The University computer center also supports a Novell network which users can access for a montly fee.

To obtain an account on the MSCS network, fill out this account request form and submit it to the systems administrator. Your username and password should appear in your departmental mailbox within two days of your request. If you need your account sooner, see the systems administrator in person.

Please abide by the following computer use guidelines:

• Your computer account is intended primarily for academic use. Misuse of your account may result in its being cancelled.
• Account security is important. We have had trouble with ``hackers'' in the past. Change your password (log on and type yppasswd) as soon as possible after you get it. If you suspect that someone has learned or could guess your password, change it.
• Please conserve paper by using print preview programs and by reading email on the computer.
• Try to keep the equipment clean. In particular, keep food, drinks, and chalk dust away from monitors, mice, and keyboards.
• If you encounter problems with your account or with a specific machine please send a detailed report of the problem to consult@math.uic.edu, even if you can work around the problem!
• Do not turn off the power on the computers.

If you wish to log in to your account from your home computer, you must first obtain a UIC account. If your name is in the UIC phone book database, you should be able to register for an account from the ADN web page.

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