Unix - Intro

Dongsoo S. Kimdskim@iupui.edu

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Access You need an account to access the ECE

Unix system• The Unix account name and password are

identical to IUPUI email ID and password, but • You must ask Rob Meagher (

rmeagher@iupui.edu) to initiate yours. You need an access to SL143

• Your student ID card (jagtag) will be used to enter the lab, but

• You must ask Jeff Sears (SL 141A) to register your card.

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Systems SUN Microsystems’ SPARC servers

• vlsi.ece.iupui.edu• tiger.ece.iupui.edu• bear.ece.iupui.edu• and several workstations in SL 143

Software• General Applications: open office, firefox,

thuderbird, gimp, latex, …• Electronics: Mentor Graphics, Cadence, • Network Simulator: ns2

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Interfaces The ECE Unix supports 3 interfaces

• Traditional CDE• KDE• Java Desktop (recommended)

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Remote Access from Windows™, 1

No legacy network application is allowed due to security reasons• telnet, rlogin

The basic remote access is thru secure shell • Applications:

OpenSSH (www.openssh.com) PuTTY (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) Connectivity Secure Shell (SSH) 2008 (iuware.iu.edu) with

Request Access• Strength

Efficiency for network bandwidth• Drawback

Must use terminal-based applications only.

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Remote Access from Windows™, 2

X Windows servers• Exceed – commercial.

iuware support some level• Reflection X – commercial• Cygwin/X – freeware

x.cygwin.com A port of Unix/X-Windows to the MS Windows™

Strength• Use X-windows applications to MS Windows.

Drawback• Cost • Users must know the command of an application• Broadband needed

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Remote Access from Windows™, 3

Virtural desktop on Windows• NX Client (www.nomachine.com) – free • Check a CNC web for config. Info and password:

https://www.et.iupui.edu/cnc/Research_Web/nx/nx.aspx

Strength• Same interface as a native Unix machine on MS

Windows Drawback

• Broadband needed• In progress of installation. Unstable.

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Window Browsers Nautilus

• A default file browser for Java Desktop• Simple and easy• Customized for SUN Unix system

Konqueror• A default file browser for KDE• Rich Features• Generic

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Working with a Text File Gedit

• graphical interface, easy Vi (vim, gvim)

• The basic for Unix users. Emacs ( xemacs)

• Rich feature Pico

• Simple but not worth

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Applications StarOffice – a complete set of office

applications• Word processing, spreadsheet, database,

drawing, presentation LaTeX – a set of typesetting

applications Gimp – image editor as Adobe

Photoshop Firefox – web navigator Thunderbird – email client Many others

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Use of USB Memory Simply insert your USB memory into a free USB port of the

Sun Ray terminal.

It will be automatically mounted under/tmp/SUNWut/mnt/<username>

For your convenience, do the following at the shell prompt: % cd% ln –s /tmp/SUNWut/mnt/$USER usbdrive% cd usbdrive% ls

For more info, visit https://www.et.iupui.edu/cnc/Research_Web/usbdrive.html

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Access Windows from SUN Usage:

rdesktop options server_name Example

rdesktop cnc24hour.engr.iupui.edu More MS windows servers will be

listed.