Olin 217

Macintosh Lab

 

Logging In and Logging Out

 

To Log In

 

On start, you should see the initial login splash, with Mathematics and Computer Science at the top and a login dialog in the center of the screen.  If the screen saver is active you may need to move the mouse or press “Shift” on the keyboard to activate the screen.

 

Steps:

 

1. Use the mouse and click in the ‘Name:’ field of the login dialog.
2. Type in your campus-wide user name, which should be the same as your email login.  This is typically (barring conflicts) the first six characters of your last name, followed by an underscore character (‘_’), followed by the first initial of your first name.
3. Advance to the ‘Password:’ field of the login dialog by either pressing the tab key on the keyboard, or the return key on the keyboard, or by using the mouse to click in the field.
4. Type in you password.  Each year, these are reset to the character sequence consisting of a capital D (‘D’) followed by the last eight digits of your student number.
5. Press the return key on the keyboard or use the mouse to click the ‘Log In’ button in the login dialog box.

 

Upon successful login, you should see the Macintosh desktop, similar to the one below:

 

 

To Log Out

 

Steps:

 

1. Click the Apple icon located in the top left corner of the display.
2. Select, from the resulting drop-down menu, the last entry,
   ‘Log Out <your_user_name>’.
3. Press the return key on the keyboard or use the mouse to click the ‘Log Out’ button in the confirmation dialog.

 

Desktop Layout

 

Application Toolbar

 

Across the bottom of the desktop display is a toolbar allowing quick access to available applications.  We will refer to this as the Application Toolbar.

 

 

Application/utilities available include (from left to right)

 

 

To the right of the vertical bar icons allow access to the complete Application folder hierarchy and to the Trash for unwanted files.

 

As applications are brought up, active applications with an entry in the Application Toolbar will have a triangular arrow below the application icon.  The application toolbar will also grow to accommodate any other running applications.

 

File system Desktop Icons

 

On the right side of the desktop display are a set of icons associated with file system entries.  By default, these include five entries:

 

The top two icons represent two hard disk partitions present locally on all of the computers in the lab.  The first hard disk partition (Olin217) holds the operating system and all applications.  The second hard disk partition is used for local folders and files used in customizing the environment for the set of users that log in to this machine.

 

The third and fourth icons are alias shortcuts to network drives available across campus.  The first alias links to an individual’s U drive, and the second alias links to the S drive associated with an individual.

 

The final icon is an alias shortcut to file system storage available to the user.  Please note:  this local folder is just that … local to this computer and thus is not available at any other workstation.  In addition to general storage, this area is used to store individual preferences for the user.  Further, this storage is not backed up and there may exist situations in which files may not remain available indefinitely.  Therefore, you are will advised to follow the steps detailed in the Novell HOWTO for storing all files that you want to keep.  Use this area only for temporary storage.