Department of Computing Division of Information and Communication Sciences
 


Servers


22 Feb 2002

Fileserver

Claudius is the primary fileserver for all undergraduate user files. It serves files to both the unix servers and to Microsoft Windows workstations. It is a Sun Solaris server with an attached RAID array. Claudius enforces student file quotas and is also responible for backups. Teaching material is also hosted on claudius.

Windows 2000 Servers

There are a several Windows 2000 Servers supporting the windows domain called student.ads.ics.mq.edu.au. The student domain is an Microsoft Active Directory which manages all the user accounts (student and instructor) and all the Microsoft Windows workstations. When a uses log into a computer in a computer lab they are infact logging into the student domain.

These Windows 2000 Servers are also responsible for software distribution, managing printing (incl quotas) and the Microsoft Windows based web publishing etc.

Unix Servers

Titanic and Pompeii are the 200/300 level Unix servers, both running Solaris 7. File storage for both Titanic and Pompeii is on claudius. Student enrolled in 200 level units will have accounts on titanic while student enrolled in 300 level units will have pompeii accounts.

ugmail.ics.mq.edu.au is the mail server for all undergraduate mailboxes.

Web Services

Web content associated with teaching is located on several servers. Material hosted on Unix servers is published through www.comp.mq.edu.au while content hosted on Microsoft Windows servers is published through teaching.ics.mq.edu.au. Content published by students is on platypus (specifically for COMP249).

Last Update: Thu Feb 21 11:41:08 EST 2002


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