Staff/Research students with their own laptops/PCs

Setup

Email request@cs.ucl.ac.uk to get an IP and hostname. You will also need these settings:
Gateway: 128.16.6.150
DNS: 128.16.6.8
and  128.16.5.31

Home directory

NFS shares are not possible, but you can access your home directory via Samba. This is how I mount mine, for instance:
smbmount //smbhelp/ucacrts /home/ucacrts \
-o username=ucacrts,uid=ucacrts
This is not ideal because it alters file permissions.

Network time

The firewall blocks NTP, but we have our own NTP server. You can sync with it like this:
ntpdate 128.16.64.10
hwclock --systohc

Printing

Cups will detect the 'copier' printer, but it won't work. You have to add a new printer yourself. Select 'Samba/Windows printer' and 'Raw printer' and enter the URL like this:
smb://username:password@smbhelp/p-copier
There are other printers as well, but I haven't tried them. To get a list, do:
smbclient -L smbhelp


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