How To’s and FAQs
A series of tutorial-style pages or notes of importance for some Windows software offerings found on our supported systems.
X forwarding with Xming
X forwarding with Xming This tutorial will cover how to forward X11 applications from a remote Unix/Linux host to a local Windows machine. On a Unix/Linux machine, you can run remote applications via XForwarding with something like: ssh -X rnixon@dthroat.cat.pdx.edu "gimp". In order to get this same functionality on a Windows machine, we [...]
S: Drive
Understanding the S: Drive Observant users of CAT supported Tier 1 or 2 Windows systems may notice that two of their drive mappings is mapped to their Linux storage space. What is the "Linux storage space"? The Linux Storage Space is the contents of your Linux home directory. While some of you [...]
Connecting to a Stash from Windows
Connecting to Your Stash via Windows Step 1: Connect to the MCECS VPN This step is only necessary for Tier 3 devices (personal laptops, desktops outside our network). If you are already on our network, you can skip to step 2. for documentation to do this, please see this guide: CAT VPN [...]
Access OIT Windows Accounts
Accessing OIT Windows Accounts Accessing a Directory With a Web Browser OIT provides access to personal, departmental, and student directories through the internet. For more information, see the following article on OIT's website: Mapping a Network Drive Mapping a network drive allows you to interact with your files more directly. For OIT Student Home [...]
Remote Access
Topic related to Remote Access to/from Windows computers.
Restoring a File with Shadow Copy
Restoring a File with Shadow Copy Background Restoring a Previous Version of a File Restoring a Deleted File or Folder Background Any files stored on your N:or Z: drives are backed up to tape nightly for disaster recovery purposes. In addition, starting at midnight, a service called shadow [...]
Mapping a Network Drive
Mapping A Windows Network Drive In Windows, mapping a network drive is a method of assigning a convenient drive letter (such as N:) to a network location (such as \\thoth\home01\username). TheCAT provides some pre-defined mapped drives on supported Windows machines for your convenience. You can also add your own drive-mappings to your MCECS [...]
Mapping a Drive to a Linux Account
Mapping a Drive to a Linux Account You must be logged onto Windows with the same username as your CS/ECE UNIX username. If your usernames are not sychronized, you will not be able to use samba to access your files. Note: If you are not on a desktop directly in our domain you [...]
Local vs. Network Drives
Local Vs. Network Drives What's "local", What's "network" By default, you will not be able to install software on the network or on the local hard drive. Drives A: through L: are designated as local drives. Drives M: through Z: are network drives. After successfully logging onto a Windows 10 computer, double click [...]