To connect to your Linux account from outside the School of Computing, you have to SSH to the student server:

student.computing.dcu.ie

Username/Password: Use the username/password combination that you received at DCU registration.

If you have any problems connecting, please email: studentgateway@computing.dcu.ie

PuTTY is a free SSH client for Windows. You can download it for free.

If you want to copy files to/from your Linux account from Windows, you may find WinSCP useful.

For a video tutorial of how to use PuTTY to connect to your Linux account, please see below.