FIT 100: Fluency with Information Technology
Lab 1: UW NetID, Email, Student Web Pages
Table of Contents:
Obtain a UW Net ID (your email / web page identity):
3. Creating folders using WebPine
Directories (Folders)
6. Create a Directory for Email:
7. Move Messages to other Folders
A look at your remote file
space at the UW
This
is the first lab for “Fluency with Information Technology” or CSE/INFO 100 as
you know it. The goals are simple: to
assure that every student entering the course has a certain comfort level with
two of the tools used for communication and lab work: Email and Personal Web Page
accessibility.
To
get all students up to speed on:
The
first priority is to make sure that you have created a UserID from the UW.
In order to insure that you and only you have access to your account
space, your password should be something easy to remember, but not easily
guessed. You should never give your
password out to others. The UW
requires that passwords be 8 to 20 characters long and include both upper and lowercase letters as well as
numbers. The password cannot be a
common dictionary term. The University of Washington Department of Computing and
Communication (C&C) has provided a series of help pages to establish
and manage your UW account.
If
you do not have an account, or you just aren’t sure, open up Internet Explorer
or Netscape Navigator to the following URL:
http://www.washington.edu/computing/
This will be the page that links to all other resource pages regarding your account.
A UW NetID is not optional!
You must have one in order to proceed in
this course.
Once your account is established, go to your UW
portal.
A major example of a portal that you may have
used is UW Libraries Information Gateway. Another is Yahoo!
Portal:
This
text acts as a hyperlink [a direct jump to a particular web page,
image or other file on the web] and will take you to the login to access
your email account through a web page.
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There
are many different forms of web email you can use. To send mail from your UW Account using a web
browser, you can use WebPine. This email interface will require some time
spent on the computer to become familiar with how it works.
Many
of you have used web email before (e.g. Hotmail, Yahoo Mail). For your account at the UW, one of the easier
ways to access your email from a browser is through WebPine.
This
is the email access you will probably be most comfortable using. It is not the only way to access your UW
email, however, so let us introduce you to the Pine environment.
A.
Go
to your inbox
B.
Save
the test message sent earlier by placing your mouse over the Action Envelope
and clicking on “Save” from the menu that pops up
C.
Type
in a name for the folder in the place of the one listed
Pine was created by the Department of Computing and
Communications here at the UW. WebPine is the web browser based version of Pine, also
developed by the Department of Computing and Communications. To access your Pine account when Web browsers are not
available, you will need to establish a secure connection to the
system. SSH is a protocol that allow you to access your UW email account
and file space. SSH is the replacement
protocol now used instead of FTP and telnet. These original protocols allowed access
to any host computer that you have been given permission to enter. [A host
computer is a computer that has an account for you and space for
your information in its memory].
SSH will do the same thing, but adds more encryption protection as
you pass your user name and passwords back and forth across the Networks. Through this protocol you can login to your account from any
computer that has an Internet connection.
You log on as a regular user with all the same permissions
regardless of where you are located. Pine is the text version of WebPine. It is known as a command line
environment. One of the pieces of software used on the UW campus to connect
to the host computer, read email and work with remote files is called TeraTerm and is usually an option on the desktop
or in the start menu. The location of this program depends on the lab. Ask your TA for the location of the Dante
login [Dante is the name of the host computer for student accounts here
at the UW].
Why Pine?
A.
Go
to the Student Email (Dante) icon on the Start Menu.
Start>Student Mail (Dante)
[Your TA will let you know if it is located elsewhere on the machines in
this lab]
Student
email (Dante)
The
login screen below will appear. Enter
your UW ID and password.
Once you
log on you will be shown a menu with options to enter your email space,
your file or web space. This
environment doesn’t allow use of a mouse for most selections. This is a
command line interface; so in order to move from screen to screen, press
the correct command key.
B.
In the screen shown below, press “e” for email. You do not need to press the return button.
Often Pine
does not require you to hit the Return/Enter button after pressing the
letter that corresponds to a menu selection. However,
you can use the arrows to move up and down the menu selections. Press <Enter> when you have
highlighted your menu choice.
Main Menu for Email
[See:
http://www.washington.edu/computing/email/pinedoc/ for detailed information on using Pine to send
mail]
Your email address is yourUWNetID@u.washington.edu
where yourUWNetID
is the name you use when you log in.
A.
Press C (Compose) to see the Compose Message screen.
B.
In the To: field, type your UWNetID and
press <Enter>.
Note that the rest of the address is filled in for you.
C.
Use the arrow buttons or the tab button to move through the other
fields to the body of the message
D.
Type “This is a test” in the body of the message.
E.
Send the message: Type <Control>X (Send).
NOTE: The control button is
indicated by the ^ character in the commands, so ^X is the send
command.
You are asked: Send message?
F.
Press y (yes) or press < Enter >.
The message is sent and a copy is saved to your sent-mail folder. (If you press
n (no) the message is not sent, and you can continue to work on it.)
Directories (Folders) What is
a directory? A
directory, or folder, is a container for files. Just like the folders in an office file
cabinet holds documents, a directory on your computer or any other, can
hold files of all types. A directory
is a way to organize related files in a manner that allows for quick
retrieval. If you have your work divided
into the various areas they pertain to, you can use folders to hold them in
a logical manner. A directory
can also be a collection of users, their passwords and information about
what they have the right to use on a particular computer system. It is still a container holding related
files. You will make directories in
this lab to hold your work this quarter, but you are also part of a
directory of the users of email and web pages at the UW.
B.
There are two main folders.
One is your account space, called “Mail on your_UW_NetID.deskmail” and
the other holds newsgroup information.
Your mail folder is highlighted by default. Press <Enter> to view the contents.
C. Press A to Add (create) a folder, give it a useful name (like FIT100). Press Enter to add the folder to your collection.
Three
folders will be provided automatically by Pine:
A. If you aren’t in the Main Menu, press M (Main Menu) to return to it.
B. Press I (Message Index) to go to your current folder. The current folder is your Inbox.
C. Using the arrows, move to the test message you sent to yourself.
D. Type O (Other Commands). The bottom menu will change slightly. You now have other commands to select from.
E. Press S (Save). The prompt at the bottom of the screen now asks for the folder you want to save the message in.
F. Press ^T (To Folders). A list of the folders in your account will come up. Use the arrow buttons to highlight the folder you created today.
G. Press S (Select). The folder you highlighted now appears as the selected folder to save your message to. Press <Enter> to move the message from your Inbox to the folder you created.
Be aware that the same keys you press in one screen may refer to
different commands in another screen.
Always read the command menu at the bottom of the screen to be sure.
Spend
time outside of the Workshop getting to know the commands available and
familiarize yourself with the environment.
You
are asked: “Really quit Pine?”
Press
y for “Yes”
You
will be taken to the main screen for Dante.
Press
(L) to “Logout”
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A. Using a browser (IE or Netscape), go to the following URL:
http://www.washington.edu/computing/
B. Click on the “Manage Your UW NetID Resources”
link.
C. You will be required to log in with your UW NetID and password.
D. If you do not yet have the Basic Services Activated, click on the link.
E. At the bottom of the page, select Yes to Activate Basic Services and click next.
F. When finished, click on the “Manage Your UW NetID Resources” link under “What would you like to do now”.
G. Scroll down to inactive services.
H. Click on Student Web Publishing
I. Ask your TA for help if you are unsure of any of the directions.
J. You will be going through a login screen and following a series of
directions, so pay attention to the explanations on the screen.
K. When you are finished, you are shown the URL for your web page.
http://students.washington.edu/yourUWNetid/
This
lab will not go into the details of public_html. The folder is created in your Dante account
when Student Web Publishing is activated.
The details of public_html will be covered in
upcoming labs. For today, verify that
that your page is activated by visiting the web page address. Your URL address
depends on your UW NetID:
If your UWNetId is boogyman, then your email address is:
boogyman@u.washington.edu
and your web page is at:
http://students.washington.edu/boogyman
Your web page will probably look similar to the figure below:
We’re at the end. All of you now have:
·
A UWNetID and an account on Dante
·
Accessed the email portion of your Dante account in two different
ways:
o
WebPine
o
Pine
·
Activated your web page so that you are now able to start
construction of a personal web page.
The next labs will go forward with the assumption that you have accomplished all three of this lab’s objectives.
Helpful
links:
Use the links provided here to obtain further information about
your email account and web page.
(UWICK) UW Internet Connectivity Kit Information
Downloading the
Starter Set if you have an Internet connection
http://www.washington.edu/computing/software/uwick/starter/
Pine tutorial
http://www.washington.edu/pine/tutorial.4/index.html
Starting
Pine
http://www.washington.edu/computing/email/pinedoc/pstarting.html
Using
the WWW
http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/
My
UW info from C&C
http://www.washington.edu/computing/
Creating
and publishing web pages
http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/publishing/
Using
UW Email (3 ways to access):
http://www.washington.edu/computing/email/