Procedures For Visitors

Where am I?

Please contact the CSSE secretary for your username and password, and the room and phone number that you have been allocated.

If you need help

Administrative assistance: Ext 6362 - CSSE Secretary.
Technical assistance: Ext 8251 - Duty Programmer.

Username and Mail Identities

You will be issued with a single username and password that should allow you access to the internet, and all university computer systems that you are authorised to use. The username with have the format XXXnn, where XXX are three characters (incorporating your initials) and two or three digits.

Your e-mail address will be: "CommonName.FamilyName@canterbury.ac.nz".

Workstation Operating Systems and Logging in

There are three main operating systems supported on workstations at CSSE: Linux (Fedora), Windows and MacOS. If you have a dual-boot workstation you will be able to run either Linux or Windows-XP OS by rebooting and choosing the desired OS from the boot menu provided at start-up; Windows-XP or Linux terminal sessions can be run from the other OS. Again, the username and password to use is the one provided.

Linux

Nothing additional.

MacOS

Nothing additional.

Windows

On a Windows system there are three fields:

User name:
Password:
Log on to:

The user name and password are those issued to you and the "log on to:" value should be UOCNT.

E-mail

The default e-mail clients used are Thunderbird on Linux and Microsoft Outlook on Windows-XP systems.

Your e-mail address will be: CommonName.FamilyName@canterbury.ac.nz

If you are prompted for a username and password, use the ones issued to you.

The following are possible on all OSs:

Retrieve your e-mail from an off campus mail-server.
Access to your UC e-mail via a web-browser while off campus and in fact while anywhere in the world.

The following are available on Linux:

Set-up an automatic response message.
Forward e-mail to an alternative address.

Browsing the Web

You have two choices when browsing the web while on campus (or attached to the UC network via dial-in), you can either browse via the ICTS proxy server or you can be directly connected using software called IEnabler; ICTS provide details on the use of Internet Enabler.

If you are not using IEnabler and you attempt to browse a non-UC web-page, you will be prompted for your username and password; this should only happen once per browsing session.

Linux

Nothing additional.

MacOS

Nothing additional.

Windows

In most cases you will want to use IEnabler. This should have been configured correctly for you when your computer and user profile was setup.

Using printers

The default printer is the laser printer in room 206.

There are a number of printers commonly accessible: the laser printer and colour inkjet in the staff resource room (206); also the laser printer in the graduate resource room (334).

Linux

The list below gives the printers that can be used with the lpr command.

lpr -P printer

	Printer Name		Description
	CSSE_206		laser in 206
	CSSE_206_colour		colour printer in 206
	CSSE_334		laser in 334

MacOS

Nothing aditional.

Windows

Nothing aditional.