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System Development and Administration System development and administration is located in room HG00.545. Who are they? Remco Aalbers Bram Daams Miek Gieben Alexander Greefhorst Wim Janssen Eric Lieffers Simon Oosthoek Ben Polman Arnoud Thörig Erik Visser What do they do? System Administration takes care of Management of the servers of the faculty and of various departments. Back-up and restore of the data on the servers. Management of workstations in the departments and in the computer labs and publicly available workstations: Managed PC’s with MS-Windows and/or Ubuntu Linux....

Openvpn If you somehow fail to get our standard VPN service up and running on your system, use our OpenVPN service. General settings: label value server adres openvpn.science.ru.nl port 443 Tip You can test your VPN-connection by visiting this (great) website: https://ip.science.ru.nl This page displays your ip address. If your Science VPN is active, your ip address should start with 131.174.. The hostname should look like vpnXXXXXX.science.ru.nl (where XXXX matches your ip address)....

Using X applications from your Windows PC MobaXterm is software which is available on the S-disc. From the MobaXterm website: “MobaXterm is an enhanced terminal for Windows with an X11 server, a tabbed SSH client and several other network tools for remote computing (VNC, RDP, telnet, rlogin). MobaXterm brings all the essential Unix commands to Windows desktop, in a single portable exe file which works out of the box.” The support of OpenGL could also be a reason to start using MobaXterm....

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Mailing lists Mailman lists are highly configurable and moderatable mailman mailing lists, e.g. the list of FNWI-employees or the list of FNWI-students. Usually one can add oneself to or remove oneself from such a mailman mailing list. Every mailman mailing list has a moderator, who can approve or reject messages to the mailman mailing list. For mailman list admins: To filter spam one can choose in the Privacy options... under Spam filters as Spam filter regexp:...

Tip Webmail For quick access to your email, use one of these webmailers: https://roundcube.science.ru.nl/ https://rainloop.science.ru.nl/ Email settings When setting up your e-mail programs, it is sufficient to only enter your e-mail address. This is what your Science email address looks like: I.Lastname@science.ru.nl All technical settings are then automatically filled in for you. If that does not work, or if it is necessary to fill in the details yourself, use the settings in the table below:...

Introduction to LimeSurvey Online surveys can be used for any type of data collection, not just for marketing purposes. Possible uses of surveys are sign-up forms for conferences, questionnaires for research projects, order forms, etc. For students and employees of the beta-faculty, C&CZ offers a survey service based on LimeSurvey. LimeSurvey is an open source web application. It currently offers: Sending of invitations, reminders and tokens by email Multilingual surveys Conditions for questions depending on earlier answers (Skip Logic / Branching) Integration of pictures and movies into a survey Logging in The admin login page is located at:...

TLS certificates Any service accessible via TLS (https) must have an TLS certificate. This includes any web server with encrypted or “secure” content. An TLS (Transport Layer Security, see RFC 8446) certificate is a signed electronic guarantee that a particular server is the server it claims to be. Certificates are used primarily (but not exclusively) for providing web pages via an encrypted connection. A certificate is signed by a Certificate Authority (CA) which ensures the integrity of the certificate....

Email codes overview ALICE-1 This is an email in which students are requested to participate in the digital course evaluation. Recipients? All students that are registered in OSIRIS for the exam of the corresponding course. When? Typically on the day of the exam (around 17:00). ALICE-2 This is an email reminder in which students are requested once again to participate in the digital course evaluation. Recipients? All students that are registered in OSIRIS for the exam of the corresponding course....

Network configuration Almost all systems connected to the network will by default use DHCP. This will configure the following settings: IP address and network mask Default Gateway for the subnet of the IP address Nameservers to resolve names to IP addresses. The IP address, network mask and default gateway are hard to figure out without DHCP. In specific cases it may be necessary to configure these settings manually, like when the hardware doesn’t support DHCP....