January 8, 2012

Remote Access Guide - MAC

REMOTE ACCESS FOR MAC OSX

If you want to work from home or work, you will need to access your Unix account remotely. The following details explain this procedure. A high speed internet connection is recommended. You should be able to use ssh built into the X11 environment. If X11 is not installed in the utilities folder, use the system disk containing X11 to install X11. If you still have problems with X11, try downloading the X11 package from Apple and install it. To log into the host computer (mars (Sun server), blackhawk or eagle (Linux), etc.), type the following at the command prompt in an X11 terminal:

ssh -Y username@machine-name.eng.uah.edu
The username above is the username you use to log into the sun workstations in EB246, and machine-name is the name of the host computer you want to log into (mars (Sun server), blackhawk (Linux), eagle (Linux), etc.). The first time you use ssh to connect to a machine, you will see a request to accept the identification key for the machine. Accept the key and proceed with providing your password to log in. The next time you remotely log into a machine, you will only be prompted for a password. Enter in your password for logging into the sun workstation. The Y flag will allow you to run nedit (or gedit) from your terminal window on your Mac. Note that a high-speed connection is required for remote applications (i.e gedit) to work fast/properly. For a compiler, g++ should be on your Mac, and if not, it can be obtained from the gnu website:

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/
A download site for the actual file is (as of this writing the most current version is 4.6.2): http://mirrors-us.seosue.com/gcc/releases/gcc-4.6.2/gcc-4.6.2.tar.gz If the Y flag is not supported, use X. In this case nedit/gedit will not work, and you will have to transfer files from the Sun server to your Mac in order to use an editor better than pico. When you are done editing your files, transfer them back to the Sun server For FTP access, there is a free software package called filezilla. Filezilla is a graphical method of securely transferring files from one machine to another. Information on the program and the download location for the program can be found at:

Filezilla home page - http://filezilla-project.org/ Filezilla3 info- http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/FileZilla_3 Filezilla3 info- http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Main_Page
Two other free FTP software packages are fugu and cyberduck. The downloads for these programs can be found at:

http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/ http://cyberduck.ch/
For FTP access, you may need to log into: ftp.eng.uah.edu. Talk to your instructor if you have questions about this procedure.

For remote editing information, see the remote editing guide.

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