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Logging on to www.rochester.edu

To access your files on www.rochester.edu (see Applying for an Account), the first thing you do is to log in. If you are on a networked machine (one with Netscape and Telnet, etc.) then you use a telnet application to connect to the World Wide Web server. Before you can do this, however, you must make sure you have registered the IP number of that machine with the WWW staff at Town House (you probably wrote it on the application, and are all set.)

Connecting from a Networked Computer

Open your telnet program and connect to www.rochester.edu.

A window will come up and you will see a login: prompt. Type in your username as given on your account receipt. You will then be asked for your password. After typing this correctly, you will be given a greeting and then the prompt term = (vt100), where you can simply hit return or enter. When you see a prompt that says 1 holodec% you are in your account.

Depending on your telnet program, you may be able to save the settings for this session so that next time you want to log in it is even easier. To do this in NCSA Telnet, simply go to the File menu and choose "Save Set." Give the set a name like "www" and save it wherever you will be able to find it easily later. Next time you want to log in, just double click on the icon that says "www" (or whatever name you gave it). This will automatically open the window and you will see the login: prompt without having to type in the server name or port number.

After Logging In

The directory you start in when you log in is not the directory where your web pages are stored. The first thing you will probably want to do is change into your home page directory (unless you are part of a shared account, in which case you have been given specific directions.) Use the cd dirname to change into your Web directory. Since everyone's files are in a different place, everyone has a different directory name, which you find out when you receive your account.

See also: Unix Guide for Web Authors
Using pico to Edit Files On-Line
Applying for an Account to Store Web Pages

 

 

 

 

       

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