User services
From Wiki CEINGE
- User account
- Every ceinge user is provided with a unique and personal user account to access all the available IT services in the institute. The account management is completely integrated with the ceinge user database, where all the user data are stored and managed by the personnel office, in full respect of the rules about the privacy and the management of sensible data.
- The account can be used to access all the central services such as the mail service, the file server, the web services with restricted areas, the wireless network service and so on.
- Follow this link for more details about the account management.
- The ceinge institute provides an internal service of email for its domain (emails in the form username@ceinge.unina.it). It is accesible by using a webmail service, requiring only a valid ceinge user account to access it at the following link CEINGE webmail. Alternatively, an email client can be installed and configured on the computer to full manage the email service.
- To see how to configure the service, follow this link.
- The email service is based on a number of server software (sendmail, ipop3, imap) and is fully integrated with other services (clamav antivirus, spamassassin antispam, online dynamic blacklists) to offer a controlled delivery, junking the unwanted emails.
- Finally an archiveing service of old email is active, capable to move the emails older then 1 month in mailboxes divided per year, located in the user space.
- File Server
- The file server offers a way to share a central user space, useful to store files. This space is automatically backed up and is the same space directly used by the bioinformatic services. The users have different chanches to access it, depending on the platform they use:
- AFP: The MacOS protocol to mount network volumes;
- SMB: The protocol used in MsWindows environement to share files and directories;
- FTP: The most common and basic protocol to transfer files between computers;
- SFTP: The secure version of the ftp protocol, capable to encrypt data and accounting information.
- The user space on the file server is reachable seeking the folder named with the own username in the "Home" folder. See how it is internally structured: User Space Structure.
- Web Server
- This service is widely used to issue a number of services based on the web protocol and not only the official ceinge website (CEINGE - Biotecnologie Avanzate), among others:
- Bioinformatic site, the main portal of the bioinformatic at ceinge
- Scientific databases (SRS, Ensemble)
- Management interfaces to databases containing experimental data (CST, Kinase)
- Personal web site, a user space shared via web fully manageable from the users.
- Virtual Linux Station
- A service based on the VNC client/server protocol, used to share a remote graphical desktop. The peculiarity of the VLS service is the integration of a central linux graphical desktop, capable to run a number of scientific programs, with the entire IT infarstructure of the ceinge (user space on the file server, biological databases, computing resources). To use it, follow the istructions.
