The CSE Networked Windows PC Environment - Getting Started in CSE 203
Table of Contents
Logging In the First Time
This document explains how to access the CSE networked Windows PC
environment from one of the
CSE lab sites.
For this first login, you may be working with a partner during a
"closed" lab session. ("Closed" just means it's an organized,
in-class session, as opposed to a lab exercise that you work on at
times of your own, or of your partnership's, choosing.) If so,
take turns: have one partner log in and copy her or his files, then
have the other partner do the same thing.
Login to Windows on the PC, as follows:
- Find any free PC in the lab room. (After you move the
mouse and/or turn on the video screen, you should see the Windows
logo in a box of instructions in the middle of the screen if the last
person has logged out properly.) To login, momentarily
press and hold the <control>, <alt>, and <delete>
keys simultaneously. This will cause Windows to prompt you for
your account information.
- Click inside the "User name:" box and type "cse\" followed by the
CSE department
user name that was
provided to you by your instructor (not your Ohio
State name.number user name). The "cse\" part is important.
It tells the computer to connect you to the CSE department file
storage network. For example, Lucy Van Pelt has user name
vanpeltl, and she would type "cse\vanpeltl".
- Click inside the "Password:" box and type your password.
Your default password is the last four digits of your SSN,
followed by your first and last initials, followed by an exclamation
point ('!') (e.g., Lucy's password would be something like
6789lv!). Note: each alphabetic letter in your default password
is lower-case!
- Click on the "OK" button to complete the process of logging into
Windows on the
PC you're sitting at.
Next, change your currently insecure Windows
password, as follows:
- Momentarily press and hold the <control>, <alt>, and
<delete> keys simultaneously and a dialog box will appear.
- Click on the "Change Password" button and do the
obvious. You should choose a password that you can remember and
that no one else will associate with you or your account. A good
rule of thumb is to make it six to eight characters in length, and to
include one or more numbers and one or more punctuation characters.
Getting Your Own Copy of the Phrogram Files
You will be examining and modifying existing Phrogram programs, as well
as creating new programs of your own design. You need your own
copy of some existing programs.
Get your own copy of these programs as follows:
- Your own programs will be stored on the shared network drive
called "Z". Drive "Z" contains a folder called "WINDOWS", and the
"WINDOWS" folder contains a folder called "personal". That folder
will also be known as "My Documents". Open a window into that
folder by double-clicking the icon
labeled "Z (User Data)" located on your
desktop. This window, labeled "personal" in its title bar, is
the "target" of the copying operation we will be asking you to perform.
- This copying operation is more difficult if this target window is
displayed in "Filmstrip" format. To correct this problem, find
the button
on the "personal" window's toolbar
that looks like a
little window. Click it and select "Tiles".
- Now move this target window "personal" to the lower right-hand
part of the screen by dragging its title bar there.
- Next, open a different folder window by double-clicking the icon
labeled "K (Class Data)" located on your
desktop.
- In this "class on 'filer1' (K:)" window, open folder CSE203 by
double-clicking it.
- Make sure you can see both of these windows that you just brought
up, the CSE203 window, and the "personal" window. If not,
then drag the title bar of the visible window to put it in another
position on the screen.
- Now copy the entire folder "My Phrogram Files" to "personal"
by dragging "My Phrogram Files" over to the "personal" window.
- A message window should appear that indicates that copying is
proceeding. After a minute or so, you'll have your own copy of
the Phrogram files.
Logging Out
If you're taking turns, now is the time for the first partner to log
out, so that the second partner may log in and copy her or his
files. The second partner may remain logged in for the remainder
of this closed lab exercise. Click on the "Start"
button in the lower-left corner of the screen and select "Log Off".
You will
be prompted to confirm that you want to logoff. Click on "Log
Off"
if you are sure. At this point, we want to remind you that it's
your responsibility
to protect your account and the files it contains by remembering to log
out.