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 the UID 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.