Remote Access

For Mac Users

Apple's X11

To remotely login to the ACL from a mac all you will need is Apple's X11 xserver. If this is already installed (it should be in /Applications/Utilites/X11) You can skip the installing part of this tutorial. X11 comes installed by default on Mac OS 10.5 Tiger. If you don't have it already, X11 is part of the Xcode package on your OSX install CD. Go to the root of your install CD, open the XcodeTools.mpkg, and follow the installer instructions.

If you no longer have your install CD, don't worry! You can download the package from one of these places:

From Apple for Mac OS 10.3 Panther

Here for Mac OS 10.4 Tiger

Connecting with X11

In the Finder go to Application and then Utilities, where you will find the x11 application. Start x11.app. That should bring up a xterm shell window running bash. In order to connect to quark/ACLs follow the procedure bellow:

ssh -Y yourusername@acl#.cs.earlham.edu 'ssh' allows you to connect to a remote server or host from your local machine. For example, connecting to quark from your laptop. '-Y' allows you to forward windows from your acl you are loged into your local machine. For example if you want to open an emacs window. 'yourusername' is your CS username. 'acl#': pick up an acl machine you would like to connect to. The # is a number between 1 - 22. Some of the acls may not be working due to some technical reasons. Therefore, if you can't login you should try connecting to another acl. Once you are loged in to one of the ACLs. You can now start something like emacs:

$ emacs filename.xxx &

now that you've ssh'ed in, try running: emacs &
You should get an emacs window just like you're used to working on.

Links

This link has the terminal commands for the most commonly used programs that are in the vtwm menus.

To check the status of the ACLs: http://cs.earlham.edu/cgi-bin/redirect-aliveinfo.cgi

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Created by Nick McLarnan, Jordan Korth, and David Wellcome