Computing Information For Hosts And Visitors

Before Your Visitors Arrive

The aim of this document is to make sure that visitors to the Statslab will be able to use our computers and our network when they arrive. Before they can use our computers, I have to set up an account for them, and it makes things easier if I can have their account ready for them and give them an envelope with their userid and password and my introductory information. If they are bringing a laptop, I may also have to wire up a socket for it. Therefore I should like to know about visitors before they arrive.

In order to set up an account, I need the following information for all visitors:

Their full name.
Whether they want to use our Linux machines, our Windows machines or both.
Their leaving date if known (it's best if I don't keep too many unused accounts around, for security purposes).
Their room number if known (this is only essential if they are bringing a laptop).

Important Servers And Forwarding Email

If you want to transfer files between your Statslab account and your other account, or if you want to read email over a modem from home, then it may be useful to know the following servers.

Our FTP server is ftp.statslab.cam.ac.uk
Our SMTP server is mail.statslab.cam.ac.uk
Our IMAP server is mail.statslab.cam.ac.uk

It is possible to forward email from one account to another automatically. On a Unix system, this is done using a file called .forward in your home directory. If you want to forward email from your other account to your statslab account, log into your other account and create a .forward file with the single line ``username@statslab.cam.ac.uk'', without the quotation marks and replacing ``username'' with your username.