{"id":339,"date":"2019-10-11T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/?page_id=339"},"modified":"2020-05-07T00:54:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T04:54:02","slug":"unbuntu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/unbuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of people at BU are using <a class=\"http\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a> and its derivatives. Here is some information to help those wishing to use Ubuntu here at BU. If you&#8217;re new to Ubuntu you should also look at the <a class=\"https\" href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu documentation<\/a>. Support for the BU community is available by email at <a class=\"mailto\" href=\"mailto:linux-help@bu.edu\">linux-help@bu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big><a href=\"\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/unbuntu\/authentication\/\">Authentication<\/a><\/big><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">Log into your Ubuntu machine using your BU username, and kerberos password.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">This is the recommended setup for on-campus users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><big><a href=\"\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/ubuntuatbu-security\">Security<\/a><\/big><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">Suggestions for a more secure system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><big><a href=\"\/engit\/UbuntuAtBU-VPN\">VPN<\/a><\/big><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">Connecting your Ubuntu machine to BU, from off-campus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><big><a href=\"\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/ubuntuatbu-nfs\">NFS<\/a><\/big><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">Accessing NFS directories exported by other servers. NFS is the most common way to serve files from a unix or Linux server.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><big><a href=\"\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/ubuntuatbu-samba\">Samba<\/a><\/big><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">Accessing directories exported by Windows servers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><big><a href=\"\/engit\/UbuntuAtBU-AFS\">AFS<\/a><\/big><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">Accessing AFS shares. BU makes some software packages, like Matlab and Mathmatica, available via AFS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><big><a href=\"\/engit\/UbuntuAtBU-FAQ\">FAQ<\/a><\/big><\/p>\n<p>Frequently Asked Question about Ubuntu at BU.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"ubuntulogo.png\" class=\"attachment\" src=\"\/engit\/files\/2019\/08\/ubuntulogo.png\" title=\"ubuntulogo.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of people at BU are using Ubuntu and its derivatives. Here is some information to help those wishing to use Ubuntu here at BU. If you&#8217;re new to Ubuntu you should also look at the Ubuntu documentation. Support for the BU community is available by email at linux-help@bu.edu. Authentication Log into your Ubuntu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16541,"featured_media":0,"parent":868,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339\/revisions\/1756"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}