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 one of the PostgreSQL database services

• Connecting to the Microsoft SQL database service

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Web Hosting

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

• Creating Personal web pages

• Restricting access to web pages

• Using CGI scripts and other features

• Using PHP

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