Notebook with Network

How to use your notebook in
Pui Ching Middle School?

Notebook with Network

Chung Wai Tung

28th June 1999

2:00pm
-

4:30pm

Check your machines
(1)



There are 4 types of notebook
computers in PCMS:



IBM thinkpad 770
(PII266+64M RAM+8G HD)



IBM thinkpad 600
(PII233+64M RAM+3G HD)



IBM thinkpad 380
(P233+64M RAM+4G HD)



Asus 7400
(PII300+64M RAM+4G HD)



For each type of machine:



Locate the followings
:

On/Off button, Power
-
in, Battery, Floppy
drive and CD
-
Rom drive

Network port, Modem port, Infrared Port,
USB port, VGA port, LPT port, COM port,
Audio
-
in port and Audio
-
out port



Check the following
:

CPU type, RAM and harddisk capacity

Check your machines
(2)



Learn how to
:



Connect and send signals to LCD projector

find one external MM
-
VGA cable

connect the cable between your notebook
and the projector VGA
-
in port

switch

the display signal out



Connect and send signals to speakers

find one external 1to2
-
Audio cable

connect the cable to your Audio
-
out port

Daily Operation
(in school)



Learn how to
:



Connect to the PC
-
Intranet

find a patching MM network cable

connect your notebook to the network port

if necessary,
logout/login again
(
登出
/
登入
)

with username=
user

and nil password

confirm whether you get connected by
running programs such as
winipcfg (9x)
,
ipconfig (NT)
and

ping
or

check the

content
of network neighborhood
(
網絡上的芳鄰
)

Daily Operation
(in school)



Learn how to
:



Access the Internet and web resources

get connected to the Intranet

start any browser and check the
proxy

settings: 172.16.xxx.xxx:8080 (pcproxy)



do anything else...

Daily Operation
(in school)



Learn how to
:



Connect to printer

(a) through Infrared port

select corresponding printing port

place your notebook behind the printer
with eye of sight between two Infrared
ports

(b) through LPT port and a printer cable

Daily Operation
(at home)



Learn how to
:



Access the Internet

get connected to schoolnet free dial up
services (pre
-
installed) with your personal
account (e.g. pc
-
cwt) and any other ISP
using
dial
-
up network
(
撥號網絡
)

start any browser and check the
proxy

settings: proxy.hkcampus.net :8087

Notes: how to keep two sets of proxy info
in one machine?

Daily Operation
(at home)



Learn how to
:



Access the web resources of PCMS

In PCMS, all servers starts with 172.16.x.x
which we called virtual Ips, that is, you
cannot use such URL outside

Wherever outside PCMS, the servers are
re
-
map as 210.176.x.x

Daily Operation
(at home)



Where should you store your files?



data
-
disk (usually D:) of your notebook



floppy disk, ZIP disk and CD
-
ROM



schoolteam personal folder



schoolnet (cybercampus) personal folder



\
\
Pcms_fileserver
\
resources
\
…



data
-
disk of other desktop machines



How about test papers and exam papers?

A private place!

A good file systems



Share out
files

or
devices

from your machine



open
file explorer

(
檔案總管
)



select the
file
,
folder

or
device

you want to
share out from your machine



right
-
click the object and choose
resources
sharing
(
資源分享
)
and finish the message box
with appropriate
share
-
name, share
-
mode
and

password
(if necessary)



check whether you can see a
share symbol

behind the shared objects

File sharing



Access to shared
files

or
devices
(1)



open
file explorer

(
檔案總管
)

or
network
neighborhood
(
網絡上的芳鄰
)



select the appropriate
network group

and
then
machine

you want to access, sometimes
you have to key in
passwords



in NT client, if the password doesn’t match,
you can type in another
username

+
password
;
in Win9x client, you can only type in another
password

for the
login username
; sometimes,
you have to logout/login with appropriate
username

again.

File sharing



Access to shared
files

or
devices
(2)



each shared object in any machine can have
its own set of passwords (for
read
-
mode

and
for
read/write
-
mode
)



Beware
: when you access a shared objects
in win9x client, it always asks whether you
want to save up the password; if you
checked

the button, any further access
will NOT

ask
for password again!



Beware
: when you finished your work, you
must logout since all passwords you typed in
are still valid until the end of current session

File sharing



connect to the PC
-
Intranet



run
SETUP
(
設定
)

PRINTER
(
印表機
)

from the
start menu



execute
ADD NEW PRINTER

(
新增印表機
)
and
choose add
network printer
and finish all message
boxes



pick up the testing page from the newly added
network printer to verify whether it is correctly
added

Add a new network printer

Our final recommendation



You must
(1)

use
C: to install programs

and
D: to store data
;
when you get a system crash, we will format
the C: and restore the backup image for you.
Anything in C: will be destroyed!

Backup your data disk (D:) periodically

by
either saving it in CR
-
ROM or ZIP drive.
Some system crash may destroy the whole
disk.
Timed
-
backup

is a must.

Our final recommendation



You must
(2)

report to IT
-
committee when the machine is
out of order and have any problem.

bring it back for annual stock checking at the
end of each academic year and resign a loan
form at the start of each academic year.

return to IT
-
committee when you are leaving
Puiching.

make 100% use of it so bring it back home if
necessary!

29
-
June
-
1999