Newcastle University

Unix Support

The ISS Unix team support ISS infrastructure and provide resources and support for users and administrators of Unix systems on campus.

Services

• Time Sharing Systems for general usage and remote access from off-campus.
• Subversion Server for document/source code revision control and collaboration.
• The FTP mirror service for fast, local access to Linux and Solaris software and patches.
• The Samba Service for accessing your Unix filestore from Windows and Macintosh computers on-campus. See the ISS filestore documentation for more information.

Information & Documentation

• How to start using ISS Unix services.
• Guides on using Unix.
• Information for users of Linux on campus.
• Guidelines for background use of Unix systems
• ISS documentation.
• Unix Team Blog for news and thoughts from the Unix team.

Contact

To contact the Unix team, please send email to it.servicedesk@ncl.ac.uk who will forward your message to the appropriate team member.