Connecting to turing.une.edu.au

Our main student development server is turing.une.edu.au - running Fedora Linux. turing (not "turning") is named after the famous computer scientist Alan Turing

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/alan_turing
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
• http://www.turing.org.uk/

To use turing, you need your UNE username and password. Your UNE username is the first part of your email address. For example, if your email address is jdoe@myune.edu.au then your username is jdoe

There are several ways to connect to turing.une.edu.au

• A full graphical remote desktop with X2Go client
• A simple text only terminal with putty (Windows) or ssh (Mac/Linux)
• A program that uses SFTP to transfer files to/from turing (Examples: WinSCP, FileZilla, sftp)

X2Go Client

X2Go Client is the most common way to connect. It will provide you with a remote desktop on turing and give you access to UNE Computer Science computing resources as if you were in a computer lab at UNE. The steps to install X2Go are:

• Download and install X2Go client (Mac users are also required to install xQuartz)
You can get X2Go client for Windows and Mac from the X2Go website. Linux users will be able to install X2Go client with their package manager.
• Start X2Go and create a new session
• Host is turing.une.edu.au
• Login is your UNE username (email address without @myune.edu.au)
• Session type must be XFCE (select from the drop down menu)
• Start the session and enter your UNE password

Here are some PDF documents with screenshots about installing X2Go client:

• x2go (Windows) set-up instructions for connecting to turing.une.edu.au
• x2go (Mac) set-up instructions for connecting to turing.une.edu.au

SSH and Putty

X2Go gives you a full desktop. Sometimes all you need is a simple non-graphical terminal. You can do this with the ssh program (or putty on windows). ssh can be started from a terminal on Linux or a Mac and should be installed by default. Start a terminal (Linux/Mac) and at the prompt type:

ssh username@turing.une.edu.au

Windows users should install putty from https://www.putty.org

Note ssh and putty are a good way to debug your connection to turing. If ssh/putty does not work, X2Go will not work. X2Go uses the same protocol as ssh/putty

SFTP

X2go and ssh/putty are for working interactively on the remote system turing. But what if you want to transfer files to/from your computer and turing? You can do this with any program that implements the SFTP protocol. (Google SFTP client). Popular choices are FileZilla and WinSCP. Also the command line sftp on linux.