SSH/SCP/SFTP:

If you prefer the command-line mode, you may start a "Command Prompt" by "Start" -> "Programs" -> "Accessories" -> "Command Prompt"

At the prompt, you can use all the commands for UNIX.

For GUI mode, you may start the "SSH Secure Shell Client". A copy can be downloaded either from here locally.

After successful installation, there should be a "SSH Secure Shell Client" icon on your desktop, double click it to open the application and the terminal starts up.

Press "Enter", a dialog will show up and prompt you for hostname and username, input your desire hostname and your username into the corresponding boxes:

If this is the first time you connect to the remote server, a warning dialog will pop up and ask for your decision, you may simply click "Yes".

Then a little dialog, "Add Profile", will pop up on the upper-right-handed corner, you may store this session as a new profile so that you don't have to type in the username and hostname again, select a self-descriptive profile name, e.g. the hostname you are connecting to.

You're done. You are now getting a secure remote terminal, if you would like to do file-transfer, click on the icon circled in red as shown.

Another new window starts up and you may just drag-n-drop your files between your local machines and the remote server. The left-panel is your local machine file explorer while the right one is the remote side. The bottom panel is the transfer status for pending/active file transfers.

XWin 32:

If you need to use all the displays from the server to appear (eg. Stata, SAS...etc), please send a request to Ming Lo fnlo for installation.

Usage Policy:

All the UST computer environment usage policies applies, such as, not to use other's account, not to share the account with others...etc.

When phd students/RA/faculty left UST, if they didn't apply account extension, their account will be deleted without notice (and files under their account also removed).

Since  the SBM server cluster is share amongst faculty/RA/phd students, be considerate and not to submit lots of processes at the same time, and under critical situation (such as other end users suffer slow response), processes consuming abnormal resources would get terminated without notice.

Please always keep a backup of your own programs and data (see more on backup).