How to login to Linux at DCU
  1. reboot
  2. choose openSUSE distribution of Linux
  3. this uses GNOME GUI

  4. change password:

  5. Let automatic updates run.
  6. For admin problems contact Gary Conway

Remote access to DCU Linux (from home and from Windows)

  1. Remote command-line:

  2. Remote read-write file system:

  3. All MSSF and MSE students should have ssh and sftp access automatically.
  4. All other students have to ask for it to be enabled. See instructions here: CA help on ssh

  5. Remote and Network Computing

USB key

To transfer files to/from USB key:


Bug - openSUSE and USB keys

I found that in copying from USB key to openSUSE, some file names got converted to lower case.
This meant that scripts now broke. This is very BAD.
Bizarrely, some were converted to lower case but not all.
I can replicate the following behaviour. See if you can replicate this and let me know.

  1. I took files with names in all uppercase like DSCF0323.JPG and copied them in Windows onto a FAT32 USB key.
    When opened on openSUSE this is read as "Filesystem type: msdos" and the filenames are changed to lower case: dscf0323.jpg

  2. The following filenames however are not altered: 
    DSCF0323.crop.JPG   unchanged (remains mixed case)
DSCF0323.lores.jpg  unchanged (remains mixed case)
file.jpg            unchanged

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