ME/ECN Computer Services Computer Accounts and other Computational Resources in the School of Mechanical Engineering

Engineering Computer Network, ME accounts and ECN Accounts  The Engineering Computer Network (ECN) is an IT organization specific to the College of Engineering (CoE).  ECN supplements the resources ITAP provides. ME supplements the resources ECN provides.  Generally speaking, your career account is the credential set used everywhere – ITAP, ECN and ME.  Being part of ME grants you exclusive access to resources in the school of Mechanical Engineering. (printing, computer labs, Software etc). These facilities are some of the best in the University.

Your tools Account  Same login/password as your ITAP career account. Passwords will automatically sync to all machines when you change it on any single machine.  8.0Gb of disk quota that is backed up each night  $25 of ME print Quota assigned each semester  By using your Tools account, you are agreeing to the Policy on Access and Usages presented here: dgeBase/Docs/

ME Mail Servers  Friction.ecn.purdue.edu Sun T1000 Supports IMAP only (no POP) Allows for procmail filtering  Widget.ecn.purdue.edu Sun V440 Supports POP and IMAP Allows for procmail filtering

ME Undergrad Web Server: silk.ecn.purdue.edu  Sun T core, single CPU machine running Solaris 10 (UNIX).  Strictly a web server – no interactive use.  Web content resides locally on this machine. (has its own disk quota)  Web pages have this form of URL:  NOTE: the ‘ME’ is case sensitive

Computer Labs Available  ME 353/355  39 Pentium 4 Dual Core CAD certified Machines  2 printers, 1 color and 1 B&W  1 scanner  ME 236  24 Pentium 4 Dual Core Machines (4 are Red Hat Enterprise Linux)  1 B&W printer  1 scanner  ME 242  18 Pentium 4 Quad Core CAD Certified Machines  1 B&W printer  1 scanner  ME 140 (undergraduate course labs)  17 Pentium 4 Dual Core CAD certified Machines  30 Pentium 4 Dual Core machines (Various DAQ hardware)  3 printers, 1 color and 2 B&W  1 scanner

options  At Purdue, each account has only one mail server or mail drop irregardless of the number of machines you may have an account on.  Two main options for undergraduates in ME: ITAP’s mailhub (what you are currently using) and the ME servers (widget & friction). See the documentation website for more details and instructions on how to change/update your server.

Web Services on silk  silk runs the apache web server, version 2.0.x Mod-Perl and FrontPage extensions are NOT installed.  A placeholder site has (or will be) created for you. This website will be available at this address:  The ‘root’ directory of your website is available as a disk share from the server tools named ‘web’ and is automatically mounted as the ‘W’ drive in the ME computer labs  The ONLY access to the silk web space is through this share on the server tools. You cannot directly access silk.

Electronics Shop Staff  Mike Logan – Engineer and IT  Paul Niles – Computer Systems Analyst  Bert Gramelspacher – Design Engineer  Bob Hanneman – Electronics Technician  Mike Black – Webmaster and Graphics Artist

Where to get help!!!!  The ME Computer Support site  The Electronics Shop - ME 244 (We are moving now so pardon the dust)

Questions ????? The ME Computer Support site