W34 Building Access

The ISN is located in Building W34 immediately left of the main entrance to the UKE and can be access using the UKE card. On your day of arrival please check with Carolina Dlugosch and she will hand you an application for the UKE card, which can be retrieved in the UKE Service Center.

UKE email account

When you arrive at ISN an UKE email account should have been already applied for. Please ask Carolina about it. This email account is your GWIS (aka FOKUS) email account. Information about application and setup can be found here. The username and password of your email account also allows you to log into several UKE services. The password has to be change regularly (every 3 months, I think).

Resetting you Linux (aka Kerberos) Password

Prior to your arrival you should have received and email from ISN IT with a username and temporary password that needs to be reset upon first login. You need to be connected to the ISN LAN network to do so. Please ask a colleague or me to help you with that. You need to open a terminal and type ssh username@dendrite. You will then be prompted to enter your temporary password and enter a new password twice. This username/password combination will authenticate you to the ISN LAN network (e.g. the servers of each research group (ours is called "dendrite"), printers (general information, installing the ISN printers on a Mac, /common/{data,raw,apps} etc.)

Optional: Registering your private laptop for LAN access

You can use your private laptop to work in the institute, if this is your preferred computer. It is recommended, that your username should match the username of the Linux password (see above). To use your private laptop, you need to register it's IP address with our IT people. You can do this using the following form. You need the IP address of your computer and the hostname. On Macs you can find (and change) your hostname under System Settings/General/Sharing/Local Hostname and you MAC address under `System Setting/Network//Details/Hardware. Note that all newer Macs require a LAN adapter, which usually has it's own IP address. Please see Peter Kammer and ask him to give you such an adapter and maker sure that he registered its IP address. Witch such an adapter, you can use any computer now to access the ISN LAN network