Using RDP to Connect to a Windows Computer from Linux Using the Remmina RDP Client For using RDP from Linux, we recommend that you use the Remmina RDP client. This is the default RDP client for Ubuntu Linux and is installed on all MCECS machines running Ubuntu, and is included as part of [...]
Graphical Linux applications are called X applications as they use the X Windows protocol to communicate with the display. Unlike the simple terminal (shell) interface for logging into Linux (using an SSH client), running graphical Linux programs remotely requires some setup and consideration. Running a single X application If all you need to run and [...]
Using SSH for Remote Connections in MCECS What is SSH? For links to pages on specialized uses of SSH at MCECS, such as using RDP through an SSH tunnel, see the bottom of this page SSH stands for Secure Shell. It is a protocol that creates a secure connection between two computers using [...]
Connecting to a remote Linux machine using SSH from Linux/UNIX From any Linux/UNIX machine, bring up a terminal. Once the terminal has started and presented you with a shell prompt, you can start an SSH session by typing the following command: ssh username@hostname Where username is your MCECS username, and hostname is a valid [...]
Using SFTP for Remote File Transfer from the Command Line The SSH File Transfer Protocol allows you to transfer files from the command line via SSH between a local computer and a specified remote computer. Like SSH, SFTP can be run natively from the shell. This is true of macOS and Linux machines, and [...]
pip and Python virtual environments in Ubuntu You can install python packages with pip and make virtual environments to install different versions of them in different directories. python2 is default on Ubuntu 16.04, python3 is default on 18.04. We recommend you specify the version of python or pip (python3 program.py instead of python [...]
SSH from a Linux System to another Linux System. Users with MCECS Linux accounts may remotely access the general access Linux systems in the MCECS computer labs much like they would while on-campus, by using SSH. SSH clients are available for all major operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X and, naturally, any [...]
On Friday, August 30, we will be decommissioning the old Centos 5 systems used by many ECE students in the last 6+ years. These were equivalent to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Centos/RHEL 5 has been out of active operating system support for many years. ECE Linux tools are migrating to hosts running a newer [...]
General Access Linux Systems in the FAB 55-17 Lab The FAB General Access Lab is in FAB 55-17 and contains a mixture of Windows and Linux systems. There are ten Dell computers in the lab (fab01-fab10) running Ubuntu Bionic with Intel Xeon CPU E3-1241 v3 @ 3.50GHz and 16GB of ram. All of [...]
The CS Linux Labs are in FAB 88-10 aka Linux lab A (Penguin lab) and Fab 88-09 aka Linux lab B (Particle lab). Currently, the desktop systems in the labs are Dell computers running Ubuntu Bionic. The Penguin lab has 27 computers with Intel Core i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz and 16GB of ram. The Particle [...]