NeCSys General Index

NOTE: This is an abbreviated Sample Excerpt from 1996, not the actual/current MIT site.
Links like this ARE available in this sample; links like this are NOT available for view.

STARTING POINTS

• NeCSys HOME PAGE Welcome!
• HELP! When something goes wrong.
• SERVICES Available from NeCSys
• FORMS Available from NeCSys
• TECHNICAL and TUTORIAL Information
• MAC Info & Help tree

Newly added or updated pages:

• NETWORK Structure
• MOVING a Host
• Urgent Help
• RAYLAN - Lockout
• Console Server
• Freeing a locked console

OVERALL INDEX of NeCSys Web:

GENERAL:

• NeCSys HOME PAGE
• Various HELP options
  • EMERGENCIES and URGENT HELP
  • General HELP request
  • FILESERVER, SERVICES and System first-aid
  • NETWORK Failures
  • Help, my system has CRASHED!
  • Using a Systems SERVICE
  • APPLE / MAC Support
• SERVICES
  • DIALUP Connectivity - Dialup, PPP and ISDN
  • FILE Servers Lab-wide servers
  • MAIL E-Mail services & info.
  • NETWORK Services, how-to & tech-info
  • NEWS
  • PRINTING
  • SOFTWARE Lab-wide software services

FORMS:

• INSTALLATION / Setup of a Machine Request
• Restoration/BACKUP Request
• Slip/PPP Access Request
• Public MAIL ALIAS Forms
• MACINTOSH Help Request
• General HELP request
• General COMMENT Form

SERVICES:

EMAIL:

• EMail at the Media Lab
• Supported MAIL READER applications
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Mail ALIASES and FORWARDING
• MAIL-EDIT Examples
• The Full MAIL-EDIT manual
• Mail Server information
• The Aliases file
• "man" page for the aliases file

  ALIASES

• aliases-home
• alias-edit
• alias-view
• aliases-view

NETWORK TECHNICAL INFO:

• Network Overview
• Network Structure
• Network Devices
• Network Connectors & Cabling
• Network Hookups
• Network Basics
• Network Debug
• DNS - Domain NAME SERVICE
• IP Configurations
• GLOSSARY of NETWORK TERMS

NETWORK HOW-TO:

• How To NETWORK
• Do's and Don'ts {update links}
• How To MOVE A HOST / WORKSTATION / COMPUTER
• How To ADD A NEW HOST
• How To Choose an INTERFACE CARD (includes models + sources)
• HOST NETWORK CONFIGURATION Extremely useful!
• Basic Network DEBUG
• How To DEBUG a Net Connection {fold into DEBUG}
• Concentrator Problems {add graphics, link to solutions}
• How To RESET a Raylan CONCENTRATOR
• Router Debug / known problems
• Networked Console Server
• annex diagnosis: when dialups fail
• GLOSSARY - how to understand the jargon
• STOP the SKY from FALLING!
• RAYLAN Hardware -- known bugs
• RAYLAN Hardware -- Lockout Reset
• Network Interconnect Cards(NICs)
• Known Router Problems
  

DIALUP CONNECTIVITY

• DIAL UP the MEDIA LAB
• Interactive / Shell Sessions
• Slip-PPP Access
• SprintNet Numbers {speeds need to be updated}
• International Access
• Dial-Up Debug

FILE SERVERS

• FILE SERVER OVERVIEW
• Fileserver ORGANIZATION.
• Fileserver FIRST AID
• Server GENERAL PROCEDURES
• ASSESSING the DAMAGE
• DIAGNOSING a sick machine
• REBOOTING a Filserver
• Understanding File-System-Check (fsck)
• SERVER CONSOLE: the E15-040 X-TERMINAL
• REMOTE CONSOLES: the CONSOLE remote terminal server
• FREEING a stuck Server Console
• SERVICES Machines home
• SERVICES machines EMERGENCY
• Services Machines IP Addresses

NEWS

• News at the Media Lab.

PRINTING

• Printing Printerserver and supplies info

USER ACCOUNTS

• user-accounts-home

SOFTWARE

• Lab Software INTRODUCTION
• ADDING New Software
• Software INDEX
• Software Organization
• software-tree- concepts
• software-tree- organization
• what-is

HARDWARE

• Asante NETWORKING Products
• Apple Hardware Info Request
• APPLE / MAC Support

NECSYS STAFF

• Real Names removed to protect the overworked
• Bent
• Beejer
• Bouncer
• Beemer
• Brenner
• Bronco
• Bulwinkle
• Bambi