Tuesday, 19 January 2016
5:42 PM:

Dear participants of Operating Systems course,

Welcome to the course. Tomorrow we will have our first lectures and first lab session.

There is a series of steps we would like you to do before coming to the class:

1. Bring you laptop. You will need it for all the lectures and the labs

2. On your laptop install SSH client.

If you work on Windows, we recommend using Putty.

Download link: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

If you work on Linux or Mac, you should already have an ssh client available through the Terminal

Execute $which ssh in your terminal to make sure. You should get the output similar to this:

root@OSC-1:~# which ssh
/usr/bin/ssh

3. Install X11 client software

If you work on Windows, install Xming

Download link: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=156984&filename=Xming-6-9-0-31-setup.exe

If you work on Mac, install XQuartz

Download link: http://www.xquartz.org/

If you work on Linux, you should already have X11 client installed

4. Connect to Ubuntu virtual machines set up for the course via SSH with XForwarding enabled

Hostnames:

BS3/1 - osc-1.edu.innopolis.ru

BS3/2 - osc-2.edu.innopolis.ru

BS3/3 - osc-3.edu.innopolis.ru

BS3/4 - osc-4.edu.innopolis.ru​

BS3/5 - osc-5.edu.innopolis.ru

MS1/1 - osc-6.edu.innopolis.ru​

MS1/2 + MS1/3 - osc-7.edu.innopolis.ru

Username: your innopolis email username (without @innopolis.ru)

Password: your innopolis email password

If you work on Windows, follow this instructions to configure Putty to enable XForwarding:

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/geoschem/docs/putty_install.html

Fill in SSH session parameters (hostname, type: SSH, port: 22) accordingly and click "Open". Enter your username

and password (password symbols will not be displayed) and press enter

If you work on Ubuntu or Mac, type this in your Terminal. Change [username] and [N] accordingly:

ssh -X [username]@osc-[N].edu.innopolis.ru

Enter your password (password symbols will not be displayed) and press enter

Note: on Windows make sure your XMing is running before connecting using Putty (Run XLaunch program)

5. After you have logged in, you should see a command line promt similar to this:

testauth@OSC-1:~$

Execute gedit command:

testauth@OSC-1:~$ gedit

You should see a window of Gedit text editor

If the window doesn't open and you get "Cannot open display" message, you've done some of the steps wrong

On Mac and Ubuntu make sure your run ssh command with -X (capital letter x)

On Windows, make sure you have XMing installed, running and you set XForwarding enabled with localhost:0.0 host

in your Putty session settings.

In case you run into issues send an email to a.reznik@innopolis.ru

See you all tomorrow!