Terminal Server: How To

Overview

1. If you go here and mouse over the numbers in the first table you will see a list of the current users logged int that machien
2. ts1-stat.stat.iastate.edu, ts2-stat.stat.iastate.edu, and ts3-stat.stat.iastate.edu are the default TS for our public computing labs.
• These machines are only accessible on campus. If you are off campus you will need to install and use the ISU Cisco VPN client with can be installed using info found here
• Termination Policies:
• After three hours an idle session is disconnected but not logged off
• After three hours disconnected sessions are logged off
• Please limit your use of these machines to one long running job at a time and log into the machine with the least load.
• If your usage of these machines interferes with the teaching of labs or of other valid usage by students you will logged off. Continued abuse and your ability to login to these machines will be revoked.
• Each machine can support dozens of users, here are the current usage statistics:

• IP Num	Num of Users	Percent Busy
  ts1-stat.stat.iastate.edu	0	0
  ts2-stat.stat.iastate.edu	1	0
  ts3-stat.stat.iastate.edu	1	0

  
  
  
  




3. sas.stat.iastate.edu is the main machine used by students needing to run SAS, JMP, etc from off campus. The machine has no VPN requirements like the lab machines listed above.
• Termination Policies:
• After two days disconnected sessions are logged off
• This machine can support dozens of users, here are the current usage statistics:

• IP Num	Num of Users	Percent Busy
  sas.stat.iastate.edu	33	12

  
  
  
  
4. gs.stat.iastate.edu is reserved for the graduate students in the Statistics Department. Like the lab machines it is not available off campus unless you are using VPN.
• This machine can support dozens of users, here are the current usage statistics:

• IP Num	Num of Users	Percent Busy
  gs.stat.iastate.edu	8	24

  
  
  
  

How To Connect to the Terminal Servers

• The Terminal Servers are acccessed via a Remote Desktop Client. Clients are built into MS Windows XP, Vista, and Seven and can be found here for OSX and Linux.
• If you are using the Microsoft Windows Vista then watch here Note that the XP version of this is identical except for the Security Warning on the last tab. After installin the Mac and Unix versions the options are very much alike.



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