{"id":373,"date":"2019-11-07T16:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T21:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/?page_id=373"},"modified":"2019-11-12T17:05:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T22:05:05","slug":"opensuseatbu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/opensuseatbu\/","title":{"rendered":"Using openSUSE At BU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:none\">\n<p >One popular Linux distribution is <a class=\"http\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opensuse.org\/\">openSUSE<\/a> and it&#8217;s commercial version <a class=\"http\" href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/linux\/\">SUSE Linux Enterprise<\/a>.  This page contains information on how to configure an openSUSE computer  to work with the BU network.  The configuration process has been tested  on openSUSE version 11.2 and 11.1, but most should work without much,  if any, modification on version 11.0 and 10.3. Earlier versions have  some major changes to the handling of network drives so this guide may  or may not work with them, and earlier versions do not support Network  Manager so the VPN instructions will be of limited usefulness.   Disclaimer: These Linux distributions aren&#8217;t supported by the BU Linux  team, and any technical support will be provided on a best-effort basis. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p ><big><a href=\"\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/opensuseatbu-software_install\">YaST and Software Installation<\/a><\/big> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:none\">Basics  of working with YaST, openSUSE&#8217;s system configuration tool.  It is  necessary for installing software, and most of the configuration tools  in the following section are parts of YaST, so this is essential reading  if you are not already familiar with the program. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p ><big><a href=\"\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/opensuseatbu-ntp\">Network Time Protocol<\/a><\/big> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:none\">Using  BU servers to set the system time.  This is highly recommended for  on-campus systems.  There are also instructions for off-campus users to  set the system to use a third-party server <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p ><big><a href=\"\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/opensuseatbu-authentication\">Authentication<\/a><\/big> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:none\">Logging  into your openSUSE machine using your BU username, and kerberos  password. This is the recommended setup for on-campus computers. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p ><big><a href=\"\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/opensuseatbu-samba\">Samba<\/a><\/big> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:none\">Accessing directories exported by Windows servers at login (openSUSE 11.1 and later). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p ><big><a href=\"\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/opensuseatbu-pam_mount\">Pam Mount<\/a><\/big> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:none\">Accessing directories exported by Windows servers at login (openSUSE 11.0 and earlier). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p ><big><a href=\"\/engit\/OpenSuseAtBU-VPN\">VPN<\/a><\/big> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:none\">Connecting your openSUSE machine to BU, from off-campus. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p ><big><a href=\"\/engit\/OpenSuseAtBU-AFS\">AFS<\/a><\/big> <\/p>\n<p >Accessing AFS shares.  BU makes some software packages, like Matlab and Mathmatica, available via AFS. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One popular Linux distribution is openSUSE and it&#8217;s commercial version SUSE Linux Enterprise. This page contains information on how to configure an openSUSE computer to work with the BU network. The configuration process has been tested on openSUSE version 11.2 and 11.1, but most should work without much, if any, modification on version 11.0 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16541,"featured_media":0,"parent":868,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373"}],"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=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373\/revisions\/884"}],"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=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}