Terminal Rooms

There are two terminal rooms available for conference delegates. These are rooms 271 and 272 one the second floor of the Law School. These each contain approximately 22 Dell Windows NT PCs and a black and white printer.

These machines have been supplied by Dell directly.

The PCs are set up with standard software: telnet/ssh client, X-server, Netscape/IE web browsers with plugins for postscript and pdf viewing, ftp client, and Microsoft Office 97.

The PCs are set up by default to use the printer in their room.

If you want to fetch a file from your home institute to a local PC and print it, there are three steps to this:

• terminal emulation

• ftp client

• ghostview/printing (assuming ps file)

Terminal Emulation:

The most common form of communication will be via a terminal emulator back to your home institution. We have supplied (freeware) ssh (secure socket) and telnet clients from TeraTerm.

We recommend strongly that you use the ssh client since, with it, your password will not be sent out over the Internet in clear text! Preceded by the string 'password', no less!

ftp Client

Follow Start>Programs>Applications>WSFTP95 for a gui ftp client. It will put your file in the C:\Temp directory.

Ghostview/printing

ps and eps files are set to be automatically opened by Ghostview, from Windows Explorer. You will need to manually select one of the Terminal Room printers from the print dialogue box.