Christian Caterham is responsible for all the Apple Computer equipment within the School of Engineering and Informatics at the University of Sussex. This role involves the design, implementation and management of specialist Apple research / teaching facilities, whilst providing support to academics and students within the School.

Apple Systems Administrator
School of Engineering and Informatics,
University of Sussex,
Chichester I Building - Room 2R309,
Falmer, East Sussex,
England, BN1 9QJ

Skype : christian.caterham
+44 (0)1273 873165
c.r.caterham@sussex.ac.uk
http://www.christiancaterham.com

Available Configurations

NFS network mounted home directory - Mac OS X 10.7.5 & 10.8.3

Apple desktop computers located in teaching labs and research labs allow any member of Informatics to log in using their Sussex username and password. These Mac’s mount /home, /its/teaching and /its/research. All the data you create whilst logged into your account is stored securely on the ITS fileserver and your data is backed up nightly by ITS.

• Nightly backup of user data
• Mac OS and application updates are automatically installed via Puppet.
• Log into any Mac OS X, Linux and Windows PC and access your files anywhere on campus.
• Access /home, /its/teaching and /its/research and webspace through the Finder.
• No local admin account

Local home directory - Mac OS X 10.7.5 & 10.8.3

People who would prefer to have their data stored locally should request this option.

• To access /home, /its/teaching and /its/research you will need to use SFTP or SMB. (details here)
• You will need to ensure you backup your data to either ITS /home or you can also use CrashPlan Pro (details here)
• Mac OS and application updates are automatically installed via Puppet everyday.
• Local admin account

All the Apple computers used in Informatics are setup and managed using Puppet.

iOS Apple Developer Program for Informatics Students

Informatics students who would like to develop applications for iOS can be granted access to the Informatics iOS developer portal for free.

Please send your Device Name - e.g Name & Surname + iPhone 4S and Device Unique Identifier (UDID) to the Informatics helpdesk when requesting an invitation.

SFTP

SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) - Connect to your ITS home directory, teaching and research files. (works on and off campus)

Open an SFTP client. (Cyberduck is installed in /Applications on Informatics managed Mac OS X computers)

Connect using SFTP

Enter your Sussex username
Enter your Sussex password

ITS Interactive Unix Fileserver - unix.uscs.susx.ac.uk

Research file systems can be found here /its/research/

Teaching file systems can be found her/its/teaching/Departments/Informatics/

SMB

There are several ways to access your files from an Apple computer or device.

SMB (Samba) - Connect to your ITS home directory, Research or Teaching. (works only on campus)

Click on your Desktop

Select the Go Menu

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Select Connect To Server

Type one of the addresses below

/home smb://smbhome.uscs.susx.ac.uk/
/research smb://researchvols.uscs.susx.ac.uk/research/
/teaching smb://teaching.uscs.susx.ac.uk/teaching/

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Enter your Sussex password, Press Enter

The SMB Volume should now appear on your Desktop

SSH

SSH (Secure Shell) - Connect to your ITS home directory, teaching and research files. (works on and off campus)

ssh username@unix.uscs.susx.ac.uk

Enter your Sussex password

Research file systems can be found here /its/research/

Teaching file systems can be found here /its/teaching/Departments/Informatics/

Informatics Computing help desk

A local help desk provides support that is specific to the needs of Informatics students and staff. The help desk is staffed by research students with considerable experience of the Informatics facilities and the specialist requirements of Informatics users. If you require any advice or other assistance with the computing facilities in Informatics, please contact the help desk in the first instance.

Internal - 4335
Location - Room 201, Chichester 1
E-mail - rt-informatics@sussex.ac.uk
Opening hours Monday - Friday 09:30 -12:30, 14:00 - 16:30