Guides

Step-by-step instructions on how to achieve common tasks.

EMail

Instructions on how to send, receive and manage email, including:

• Email: Rule based mail filtering with the Exim .forward file

• Email: Filtering out Spam in DoC

• Email: Setting up an automatic out-of-office email reply

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File Storage

How to access and manage your files on network fileservers, including:

• How to ensure your vital data is safely backed-up

• Recovering files from backups

• Laptop Encryption

• How to check your file quota

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Printing

How to set up and use local printing services:

• Connecting to the departmental printing servers

• Configure a CUPS installation to automatically poll the DoC IPP server

• Printing from the Linux Command-Line

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Databases

How to access and manage databases housed on one of the Department's database servers.

• Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server databases

• Connecting to PostgreSQL databases

• PostgreSQL connections from off-site

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Web Hosting

How to set up and use the web-hosting services provided for groups and individuals.

• CGI Scripts

• Personal web pages

• PHP Scripts

• Restricting access to web pages

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Windows

This information is intended mainly for users of workstations within the Department of Computing. Windows Vista runs on workstations in the student labs, and on machines installed in the last year for staff and research students. Older machines used by staff and research students may still have Windows XP; please contact us to upgrade these.

* Introduction to Windows in DoC

Workstations in the Department of Computing generally run two operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista and Ubuntu Hardy Linux. If a workstation is running Windows and ready for login the screen will be displaying the "Welcome to Windows" banner (if the screen is blank try moving the mouse):