Personal webpages
Web pages on www.physics.gla.ac.uk §
Everyone in the school can maintain web pages on the
www.physics.gla.ac.uk
server (astronomy people have an alternative;
see below). These are managed on a Windows share, so in order to get
access, you need to mount that share on your desktop.
First, you have to have a folder on that server; contact Ian Anthony or
Norman Gray to create that. You will connect to this server using your
guphysics
(ie, ‘windows’) credentials; see Ian Anthony if you need
to remind yourself what your username and password are.
When you are finished, the result will appear on the web at
http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~NAME/
(where NAME
is your guphysics username).
Windows users: mount the network share \\cobweb\personal
Linux users: this is unfortunately slightly fiddly. The notes below are here for reference, but we don't currently recommend that you do this without having a chat with P&A IT first. You will need to mount the share as follows:
% sudo mount -t cifs //cobweb.physics.gla.ac.uk/personal/WNAME \
/mnt -o rw,username=NAME,uid=UID
Note:
- Above, the name
NAME
is your guphysics username, and theUID
is your unix username. - You may need to install the
cifs-utils
package (CentOS:yum install cifs-utils
) before this will work. Depending on what's installed on your particular machine, you might be able to use-t smb
or-t smbfs
instead. - You must identify a location to mount the share: this might be
/mnt
or~/mnt
(in your home directory). The above example line shows/mnt
, but it can be any empty directory. - You must be permitted to use
sudo
on your machine; contact Norman if this doesn't appear to be the case.
When you are finished, unmount the share with sudo umount /mnt
(if you mounted
this on /mnt
as in the example).
OS X users: In the Finder, Go → ‘Connect to Server...’ and enter
smb://cobweb.physics.gla.ac.uk/personal/
username (or you can use the mount
command as above, if you have the inclination). Eject the associated volume
when you're finished.
Astronomy: www.astro.gla.ac.uk §
All of the astronomy web pages are automounted on all machines, so you
can see yours at /data/www.astro/
username.
Contact Norman if you don't have a directory here.