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Logging onto geossun1       

 

Note: This does not get you anywhere other than give you a small introduction, as to how you can login to geossun1 or any SUN workstation in the computer lab for that matter.

 

  1. Assuming you are going to use the workstations in the computer lab (room 232/230), then you will be confronted with the following screen, for example this is if you went to the workstation geossun5.

 

 

  1. At this point enter your user name, it would have been supplied to you via email when you requested for an account on the department’s SUN network. Here is an example of entering the user name

 

 

  1. After that press “OK” and you will be asked to enter your password, when you enter your password it will not show up on the screen. But make sure you are entering it, an example is shown below, if you make a mistake press “Start Over” and repeat the process.

 

 

  1. After that you may see something like below, right click on the desktop somewhere and hold the mouse button down to get the ‘workspace menu’, scroll down to the ‘Tools’ section to start up a terminal like below.

 

 

  1. In a terminal you will enter the commands to login to geossun1, the department’s application server, so enter the command “ssh +x geossun1” (commands like telnet, rsh, rlogin etc will not work). The command “ssh” allows you to securely login to geossun1, the “+x” option means to send the display back to your workstation. The first time ONLY  you will be asked if you want to connect and answer ‘yes’ in full, then enter your password when prompted for it and you will be connected to geossun1.

 

 

 

  1. After that you can start up any application (read more on http://support.geosc.uh.edu for the available applications and how to run them). Additionally most of the terminals are dual headed (have two monitors) so if you would like to send the display back to the second monitor run the command on geossun1 (after you login to geossun1) as “setenv DISPLAY geossun5:0.1” , like so (note: if you logged in from geossun6 or 7 or 11 etc you would substitute geossun5:0.1 in the above command with the appropriate workstation name geossun6:0.1 or geossun7:0.1 etc)