Accessing SOFTICE from home
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This page provides step-by-step instructions on how to setup your home computer to access any Linux server in order to use the laboratories developed in the SOFTICE grant (or any other Linux system).
Accessing from a windows workstation (USB stick, easy solution)
Download and install on your desktop or USB thumbdrive the SOFTICE students thumbdrive. You can then click on the softice.bat file and enter the hostname and login given to you by your instructor.
For an overview of what you need to do, refer to this presentation.
Accessing from a windows workstation (using SSH Secure Shell client instead)
By using a SSH client such as USF's SSH Secure Shell client, you will be able to not only access remotely the SOFTICE cluster but also transfer easy files back and forth between it and your desktop PC. It is a good idea for you to do so regularly to avoid loosing code samples if the SOFTICE cluster is damaged.
You will need to download and install the following freely available software packages:
- Xming (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming)
- SSH Secure Shell Client local archive
Once you are done installing these, start xming and then the ssh secure shell client and follow the instructions available at [1] to configure it properly
Alternatively, you can directly login to softice and start konqueror without having to use the secure shell client. To do so, install the Putty executables somewhere on your machine:
- Putty local archive
Then use the following softice.bat windows script to start xming and connect directly to softice to start Konqueror on your desktop: The first part must start Xming if it isn't yet started;
c:\path\to\xming\Xming.exe :0 -clipboard -multiwindow
The second part will start plink.exe to establish a SSH tunnel connection with softice and run konqueror directly through it;
c:\path\to\putty\plink.exe -X -2 YourLoginName@softice.server.somewhere.edu "konqueror --profile softice"
Notice that the last argument to konqueror will work only if you have a setting saved on softice under the name softice which contains your preferences for using konqueror.
Accessing from a Linux workstation
Your Linux machine should already have a ssh client installed and a x-server if you are using any sort of desktop. You can connect to the softice server by issuing
ssh -X JSmith@softice.server.here
Once you're in, you can already work with the server in text mode. If you want to use graphical tools you will need to make sure that the SSH client on your machine is configured to allow the tunneling of graphical connections along with the text-based one you just established. You will need to have root privileges on your machine to go check the contents of the /etc/ssh/ssh_config configuration file. Make sure the following lines are uncommented:
FowardX11 yes
Once this is done, you can reconnect as explained above and you should be able now to start graphical applications such as konqueror
konqueror &
Using Konqueror
This application will serve you as text-based terminal, file browser allowing you to edit programs with syntax highlighting and structure collapsing and even surf the web.
Refer to [2] for a slide show similar to the one your instructor will use during the first class meeting to help you get started with konqueror.
