6. Dialing in
The department does not provide dial-in service. Such services are
provided elsewhere on campus. People can dial into Stanford into a
modem pool currently made up of mostly 56K modem pool with a regular
SUNet account. The number to dial is (650) 325-1010. A SUNet account
entitles you to many of the campus resources and is different from the
one that the department provides, which is strictly for departmental
resources. If you are a teacher or a student, you can get such an
account freely. Others must be sponsored and are charged. If you wish
to be sponsored, you must contact the department secretary.
For more information on dial-in access and SUNet accounts you should
visit the
Leland System Accounts Page.
Some campus residences are directly hooked up to the backbone. For
information on residential computing, see the
Residential Computing Page. The information below may not apply to such machines.
If you are dialing in, you must install kerberos software on the
machine you are dialing from. What you need to install depends on the
kind of machine you have. I describe these below. Please note that I
am assuming you are dialing into the Stanford University modems. If
you are using Netcom or some other service provider, the solutions
below might not work. (And I cannot tell you what to do since I don't
have your connection!)
Please note that the sections below only tell you what software
needs to be installed. The details on using the software are discussed
in the section
Security Issues.
6.1 PC's running Windows 95/98 or NT
You need to install
PC-Stanford package to access our department machines. The two
components that are mandatory are
PC-Leland
and PC-Samson for Windows.
6.2 Macintoshes
Those of you using Macintoshes should download the
MacStanford software. The two
components that are mandatory are Mac-Leland and Mac-Samson.
Please note that starting December 14, 1998, we will discontinue
rlogin, telnet, non-anonymous ftp and other
such services.
6.3 Linux machines
There are a set of unofficial instructions to help you with Linux
machines.
You then need to install a kerberos kit by following the instructions
in
Kerberos Installation Documentation.
Please note that at present, not all modems that work under Windows will
work under Linux. The reason for this is that many modem vendors cut
costs by transferring certain modem tasks from hardware to software, and
they only release Windows, binary versions of such software. Modems that
work like this are commonly known as ``WinModems''.
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