I just wanted to remind everyone of that we charge for printing in room 59. See our printing policy document which explains pricing and procedures. Students taking classes are given credits based on the expected amount of both color and black & white prints for their classes, but anyone in the School can deposit money for printing. Student publications must also establish a printing account if they wish to print.
Archive for January, 2006
Printing in Carroll 059
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006Remote access
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006Every semester students want to know, how can they get to our server from off campus? There are, of course, several answers to that question.
1) If you have a Mac, start in the Finder and use the “Go” menu to select “connect to server.” The server is howell.jomc.unc.edu. When prompted, enter the same userid and password you use in the lab, and you will get the same list of available shares. If that doesn’t work, here is a flash video on how on Connecting to Howell with a Mac the hard way.
2) If you have a PC and live off-campus, you will need the VPN client, available from shareware.unc.edu, before you can map the drive. Watch this flash video to learn how to configure the VPN and map your network space. http://www.jomc.unc.edu/docs/remoteacc.swf
3) If you have a PC and live on campus, you don’t need the VPN, but the drive mapping instructions are the same as in the video.
Where’s the Wi-Fi?
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006One question that I get all the time is, where is there wi-fi access in Carroll Hall? This came up again over the weekend at Podcastercon. The success of this program required the conference to use Carroll 111 as well as rooms in Murphey. There was an assumption on the part of some attendees and presenters in 111 that there would be access. This is, for now, wrong.
There are 6 access points in Carroll. There are two on the ground floor, in rooms 15 and 67, one on the first floor, in room 148, one in the Park Library, and two on the third floor, outside the Freedom Forum and in the Research Center. Two additional access points, one in room 33 and another in 283, were stolen.
So what about 111? There is the possibility of getting service from either 67 or 148, but there should be no expectation of quality signal. The radios are far away, and not directed toward 111. At the time we did the site survey for wi-fi, it made no sense to provide access in that room. because it is just too big. The network would be easily saturated, and everyone would be unhappy. However, all is not lost. ITS is planning a pilot for that room in which several 802.11a radios will be installed. This should mean that hundreds of people with 802.11a receivers should be able to get online and get good service. More on this when it happens.