Accessing your Intranet Account

You can use any web browser to establish a telnet connection to your Intranet account by using this address:

telnet://login.csupomona.edu

When the telnet window opens, you should see the "login:" prompt. Type in your Intranet username and password at the prompts. You should see the % prompt in a terminal window. You can now type UNIX commands, run the vi, pico or emacs editors, run the pine mail program and compile programs .

( NOTE: If your PC is not “emulating” the model of terminal that the Unix server is expecting to communicate with, you may have difficulties, including erratic displays or inappropriate responses to keystrokes See http://www.csupomona.edu/~cs/department/labs/help_pages/term_emulate.html for more information.)

There are some things you can not do in a telnet session:

Telnet runs a character based terminal window. You will not have access to to graphical programs such as appletviewer, netscape or the file manager which appear on the SUN workstation in the CS Lab.
You can not use the lp command to print to your local printer
You can not copy files from your local computer to your Intranet account. To transfer files, use ftp (see below)

Remember to type logout at the % prompt when you are finished.

To transfer files from your computer to your Intranet account, use ftp (file transfer protocol). There are several ways to run ftp:

If you have a PC running Windows, you can try using the command line ftp program. After you have established an Internet connection, open a command prompt window and type:

ftp ftp.csupomona.edu

There is a description of ftp commands at www.cs.colostate.edu/helpdocs/ftp.html.

You can also use a web browser to Transfer Files and Directories Through FTP (NOTE: This page does not work if you are using Internet Explorer - try using Netscape)

If you have a computer running Windows and need graphical ftp program, the WS_FTP "light" is a very popular shareware program which is available free to educational and home users. One place it is available for download is FTPplanet.com.

On the Macintosh, you can use Fetch to ftp files. Fetch was developed at Dartmouth College and is available for download at their web site www.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/fetch.html.

If you want to try mounting your Intranet files on your home PC (i.e. so you can use the Intranet file space as you would a local drive), instructions are available on the Intranet Services Mount a Directory as an Appleshare Volume and Mount a Directory as a Windows Share pages.

Telnet and ftp send the username and password across the network in clear text. If you are concerned about the security of your account, it is recommend that you use ssh and scp instead. If you are accessing your account from your personal computer, you will need to install additional software.

Software downloads and information are available at the following sites:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
http://www.openssh.org/
http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/pc/internet/tera/
http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html
http://www.onsight.com/faq/ssh/ssh-faq.html

If you wish to use ssh to connect to the Intranet, you need to be aware of the following:

1) As of April 2001, the Intranet supports SSH protocol 1, not SSH protocol 2. If the software you are trying to use only supports protocol 2, it will not work.

2) The Intranet (April 2001) only support 3des and blowfish encryption. If your software is trying to use a different algorithm (such as des or idea) it will not work.

3) The Host name for the Intranet is: login.csupomona.edu