Category: Services

We provide short-term accounts, also known as ‘ODL accounts‘,  for special arrangements and events, like Programming Competitions, Open-days, etc. These accounts are valid for 1 or

To request such an account, the Host of the event should raise a Helpdesk Ticket with the following details:

• Name of the event
• Number of temporary accounts
• Duration dates
• Location of event

We strongly suggest that the Host must test at least a few random accounts before the event takes place to make sure that everything works as expected.

Guest accounts can be created under certain circumstances, for example visiting Academics, Research Assistants, contractors working for a certain period of time, etc.

Guest accounts must be requested officially, by filling a “Guest User” form at the CS Reception CS300. The form should be then brought to EECS Systems CS327.

Guest Accounts, by default, will be members of their host’s Research Group. If additional permissions are required for the guest to access certain resources in EECS, please raise a Helpdesk Ticket with any relevant information.

For Printing Instructions, please read the ITS Support page which can be found at:_

https://www.its.qmul.ac.uk/services/staff/printing/

All students and staff members can create their personal website in their home directory, which can be publicly visible.

public_html folder

Any user that wants to quickly create a publicly available personal web page, they can do so by creating a public_html or a local_html folder in their home directory.

It should look like this:

• Linux
• Windows
• Mac

jdoe123@frank ~ $ ls -lha ~/public_html/
total 28K
drwx---r-x.   3 jdoe123 staffphdguest 4.0K Apr  8 11:07 .
drwx--x--x. 154 jdoe123 staffphdguest  12K Apr 30 15:03 ..
-rw-r--r--.   1 jdoe123 staffphdguest   23 Mar  7  2017 .htaccess
-rw-r--r--.   1   jdoe123 staffphdguest  929 Jan 12  2018 index.html

URL

The URL to access someone’s personal website, is the URL for the EECS website, folloed by the ~ symbol and the user’s EECS username, for example:

• http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~jdoe123/
• http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/localuser/~jdoe123/

The server has been set up so that it will fail to serve any files pointed to by, for example, symbolic links that point out of the public or local directories. When you want to link to other documents, your personal pages should contain complete URLs for them.

So as an example if a request is made for:

"http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~leonardo/bike_stuff/bikes.html"

(this does not exist!) then it would serve the document ~leonardo/public_html/bike_stuff/bikes.html. If the URL was http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~leonardo/bike_stuff then if the file index.html exists in the directory then this is served. As a department, we have standardised on using index.html.

Uploading to your personal pages

You can access your home directory remotely. scp is often a convenient way to update your personal web pages (copy the files to your public_html directory in the obvious way). See the remote access web pagesfor more information.

Letting People Know About Your Personal Page

At present the URL http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/people gives a list of the staff and PhDs in the department. This is generated from a user database – if you’ve entered a home page URL via the Intranet web details editor it will be shown there.

You might not know this, but as an EECS member (Staff/PhD) you have a second account which you will use only for services in EECS.

QMUL username

As a member of Queen Mary University, you will have a username allocated to you. Staff, research and PHD students will have a username of the format abc123@qmul.ac.uk. While undergraduate and masters students will have the format ab12345@qmul.ac.uk.

You will use that username to access your Email, WiFi (Eduroam), the Library and other QMUL services.

EECS username

As a member of EECS, you will be provided by the School with a second account (EECS username). You will use it to access Desktops, Servers, VPN, File shares, Printing and other EECS Services.

• Staff/Guests/Research: the EECS username is usually a combination of the first and last name, for e.g. for Jane Doe it would be something like janed or jane or jdoe.

Visitors

EECS Visitors usually do not have a QMUL username but they can request an ‘EECS guest account’ from the EECS Reception (CS300) in order to access services provided by EECS.