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Account Policies and Information for New Users

Are you eligible for an account on the Leland System? How do you get a Leland Account or SUNet ID? What do you absolutely need to know in order to use your account? Here are the essential answers to these questions and pointers to some introductory UNIX documentation.

Services We Provide

Sweet Hall Consultants provide support for the Leland System, a distributed network of UNIX computers. We consult with Stanford University students and employees about account policies, UNIX , AFS, the use of software available on the Leland System, and remote access procedures..

Contacting the Consultants

The Consulting Desk has open hours listed at the top of this page. During these hours, you are welcome to come by (see map) and ask your questions in person. If the Consulting Desk is closed, the best means of reaching us is through Introductory Classes

Every quarter of the regular school year, DCC offers a series of introductory classes on UNIX and Internet tools. Here are descriptions of these classes and the current course schedule.

About the Cluster

Sweet Hall is the primary UNIX cluster on campus and our machines are used by the entire Stanford community for classes and unsponsored research. Here is some information about the cluster and the various machines in the Leland System.

Special Features of the Leland System

The Leland System differs from a standard UNIX system in a number of ways. Some of these differences affect file permissions, e-mail, command shells, and quota. Here's some information on the differences.

Remote ACCESS to Stanford

Helpful information for you and your modem.

Leland System Software

This is a non-exhuastive reference of software available on the Leland System, from the UNIX operating system to the programs which run on top of it. We also provide some hints on using some of this software and answer some common questions about mail and AFS and other things.

System-Specific Questions

If you have a question about a system not maintained as part of the Leland System, we don't necessarily know the answer to your question. However, over time we have gathered a variety of information about these systems, so we offer what we do know and hope that you will find it useful.

Consultants' Resources

Here is a master index into the information compiled by the DCC Consultants. If your question isn't answered by any of the information above, look here.

Other Campus Computing Services

DCC is just one of the groups at Stanford which handles computer consulting. Here is an overview of computing resources for the Stanford University community.

Leland System Announcements

Link to the Leland administrators' website's announcements section. Leland Systems is responsible for maintaining the Unix workstations in Sweet Hall and for providing campus computer infrastructure services such as email, news, the AFS distributed file system, and the pubsw public software tree.

Dialin and Networking Service Announcements

Downtime, upgrades, and other changes affecting those who dialin to Stanford and those who use Stanford's network backbone (i.e., most of us).

ITSS Services Monitoring