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Using dynamic.uoregon.edu

We create accounts for all regular lab members on "dynamic," the primary linux server for the Dynamics Lab. When you join the lab we typically create an account with the same user name as your uoregon.edu account, but a different password. If you are one of Jennifer's PhD students, we can also create a special shared ID for your undergraduate RAs; you're responsible for that account and for changing the password periodically.

Dynamic is a linux system, very much like shell.uoregon.edu, so you can do lots of the same things using it that you could at the computing center.

PC logins and file sharing

You will use your dynamic username and password to log in to the PCs in the lab. When you do so you'll be able to print and use Windows shares to connect to dynamic for file storage and sharing. When you log in to a lab PC, you'll find in your "My Computer" that you have two network shares, one for your home directory on dynamic, and the other for a shared directory on dynamic. Similarly, you can use Mac file sharing in Straub (though we don't require that you log in first). On Mac OS X choose "Connect to Server" and enter "smb://dynamic.uoregon.edu".

If you log in when you start your lab PC, then you should automatically have 2 “disks” listed in your My Computer folder that are really parts of dynamic --   a personal disk (H:) that corresponds to your dynamic home directory, and a “share” disk (S:) that is shared by everyone in the lab.  If you don’t see these disks, try using “Run” on the Start menu and typing “\\dynamic”.  Once you’re connected to dynamic you can then drag and drop files from your PC to the dynamic disk.

You can use dynamic either for file backup or for sharing files with other people in the lab.  You can reasonably store up to about 1,000 MB of files on dynamic; if you need to store more than that contact JQ (jqj@uoregon.edu). I strongly recommend that you back up all experimental data to at least 2 places. That should include one copy on dynamic as well as maintaining your own backup on floppy or CD or a flash drive.

You can manage your personal disk however you want, and can expect that it is fairly secure. The "share" disk is quite public -- anyone in the lab can view or change it. So use it for data exchange, but don't trust it as a place to back up your data or a place to store confidential subject information.

See "filesharing" for more information.

Other uses

You can use ssh (Secure Shell Client on most PCs, and ssh in a terminal window on most Macs) to log in to dynamic with a terminal window and shell command prompt.

Dynamic is useful for web publishing. It's set up much the same way as uoregon.edu -- you can publish web pages by putting them in the public_html subdirectory that I have created for you. If you visit http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~yourname you'll see a template file (public_html/index.html) that you may want to expand upon. You might want to create a short page describing your research. If you do create (and commit to maintaining) a professonal web page for yourself, tell me (JQ) so I can include a link to it from the dynamic home page. That page could be either on dynamic or on www.uoregon.edu.

It's possible to use dynamic as an email post office. However, uoregon.edu provides better mail support in other respects, so I recommend that most people use those systems for most of their e-mail. We normally set up all new dynamic accounts to forward mail from dynamic to your main UO email address. So, for instance, mail to "jqj@dynamic" gets automatically forwarded to "jqj@uoregon.edu" where I actually read my mail. Check with me if you want to turn off mail forwarding and read your mail on dynamic. dynamic has the advantage that it does not limit the size of messages, and it is possible to set up additional mailboxes for special purposes. If you do want to use dynamic for email, I've created a "mail" subdirectory where you can store mail folders. Note that if you want to read your dynamic email from off campus it may not work -- check with me for details.

You can transfer files to and from Dynamic using SFTP rather than windows shares. On a PC, the program will typically be found on the Start menu and called "SSH Secure File Tranfer Client." On a Mac you'll typically use Fugu, Fetch, or Cyberduck.

Personally owned machines

If you have a PC or MacOS X system in your office, you may be able to connect to dynamic using PC network file sharing protocols.  On a PC, try Start>Run: \\dynamic.  On MacOS X try “Connect to server” and specify “smb://dynamic.uoregon.edu”.  Such connections do not work reliably across campus, and are blocked so they won’t work at all from off campus.

For security purposes we block most access to dynamic from off campus. Details change over time, but in general the idea is that ssh is allowed from off campus, anyone can view dynamic web pages, and dynamic can receive email from off campus.

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last update 10-Mar-2007 jqj@darkwing.uoregon.edu