The most stable wireless connection at the department has SSID “eduroam”. Log in as brukernavn@ansatt.uib.no or @student.uib.no and empty domain name.
Authentication should be set to “Protected EAP (PEAP)”.
Guests from other universities may be able to connect to eduroam as well if their home institution is a member of the eduroam network. Otherwise employees can create guest accounts of the sort “kurskonto”. These do not work on eduroam, but they work on the wireless net with ESSID UiB.
Here I explain how you can access your home folder from a remote Linux machine. (more…)
To print from a Macintosh running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), follow these instructions. When you get to the point where you are asked to name the print queue (“kø”), refer to this list to get the names of the printers in the department. For example, the queue for the printer “Emma” in room 532 is “Mi09_emma” (without the quotation marks).
You may remember earlier times when we had to use the “Samba” protocol for printing. Now it is much easier!
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Here is how I installed Ubuntu on my machine.
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The Network Manager program is most likely running on your Linux box. You communicate with it by clicking the symbol with two computer-screens somewhere on the toolbar. It might be wise to reboot the machine after filling in the relevant information in Network Manager before trying to enable VPN. For VPN to work you need the network-manager and network-manager-pptp program packages. See also https://studentwiki.uib.no/tiki-index.php?page=vpn_ubuntu
Remember that username is user@ansatt.uib.no or user@student.uib.no. Gateway is either vpn-ansatt.uib.no or vpn-student.uib.no
You may find software for downloading at the ITA download page. The direct link is https://tjinfo.uib.no/program.
If you have a guest who has his own laptop with him/her, you can establish a temporary account for him/her that lets him or her connect to the internet via our VPN wireless network. Go to https://tjinfo.uib.no/nettkonto to do this.
Most of the UiB campus, including the Department of Mathematics, is covered by a wireless network – “Airport network” in apple-speak.
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This post explains how to connect Mac and Linux computers to the central file server.
For employees the outgoing server is <smtp.uib.no> and the incoming server is <imap.uib.no>. See It-avdelingen for more details.