IRMACS Centre's Desktop Technical Support Documents

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Computer System Documentation

This list contains desktop technical support documents for IRMACS users. These documents contain information related to the computer operations at the IRMACS Centre.

  • This document describes how a user can access IRMACS's internal resources, including webmail, from an outside internet connection.

    Connecting to IRMACS Portal

  • This document describes how to connect to the IRMACS Windows Terminal Server cluster to run Windows programs from the OS X environment.

    • Connecting To Windows Terminal Server

  • This document describes how much disk space you can use on the computers, how to manage this space, and what you can do if you or your group needs more disk space than your limit allows.

    • Disk Space Usage

  • This document describes how to setup either OS X's mail application, or Mozilla's Thunderbird, to act as the user's mail client application on the client computers.

    • Email Account Setup

  • This document describes how a user can print from the client computers. Common printing options are described.

    • Printing

  • This document explains how to access your files when you are not on one of the IRMACS workstations.

    • Remote File Access

  • This document describes how to access your project's revision control system for source code or other files.

    • Revision Control Software

VPN Software Documentation

This list contains instructions, downloads, and configuration information on how to connect to the IRMACS VPN using the following client software: OS X, Windows XP and 2000, and Linux operating systems.

  • Configuration information about the IRMAC'S VPN that is needed by all versions of the Cisco VPN client software. Users must download this file to use any of the VPN software clients (IRMACS VPN Client Configuration)