This guide explains how you can connect to the School of Computing & IT's UNIX machine kay, from an external ISP.

Please note that the School does not support FTP for file uploads. To upload files from outside UWS, ie from an external ISP, please configure your SSH client as described below and then once connected to one of the School's UNIX shell servers, click on the SFTP icon:

Configuration

First of all you will need to have a recent copy of SSH, which is available from http://www.ssh.com/ as a free download. There are a number of SSH clients which are available but we have written this documentation for the SSH client from  http://www.ssh.com/ . You may be able to use this non-commercial version for personal use but you must inspect the license details first. Please select SSH Secure Shell for Workstations as your download. Once you have installed this software, you will need to run it. This can be done by double clicking the icon it created on the desktop, or clicking START-> PROGRAMS->SSH COMMUNICATIONS->SSH CLIENT

You now need to change the firewall configuration settings so that SSH can pass through our firewall. We will be using socks to allow your connection through our firewall.

• Click EDIT menu
• Click SETTINGS menu item

You should now see a window that looks similar to the following:



In the box that says Firewall URL: you should enter socks://socks.cit.uws.edu.au:1080 and you should select SOCKS5 from the SOCKS version pick list.i

Please click OK and then:

• Click FILE menu
• Click PROFILES menu item
• Click on ADD PROFILE menu item

You should now see a window that looks similar to the following:



Change Profile Name to the name for your School of Computing and IT SSH profile (e.g. SCIT or external-ssh.cit.uws.edu.au), and click on the Add the Current Profile to Pro..." button

Now you should:

• Click FILE menu
• Click PROFILES menu item
• Click on EDIT PROFILE menu item

You should now see a window that looks similar to the following:



Click on the profile you just created (e.g. SCIT or external-ssh.cit.uws.edu.au), and in the Hostname box, enter external-ssh.cit.uws.edu.au. In the Username box, enter your School of Computing and IT username. In the Port Number box, enter 22. Make sure the Connect through firewall box is ticked, and then click on OK. Now exit the SSH program to make sure the settings are saved.

Using SSH

You should now run SSH again, and this time choose FILE->PROFILES->Name of your CIT Profile

When you are prompted for your password you should enter your standard SCIT password. You will now be logged on to one of the School's UNIX shell servers.

Note:
If you experience the error:

The host 'external-ssh.cit.uws.edu.au' is unknown

try editing your selected profile and replacing external-ssh.cit.uws.edu.au with 137.154.149.63 in the hostname field (you may also wish to replace socks.cit.uws.edu.au under your firewall settings with 137.154.148.80). The host unknown error occurs because your computer cannot resolve external-ssh.cit.uws.edu.au to it's corresponding IP address - this usually happens because your DNS is misconfigured. Please contact your ISP's helpdesk to resolve this issue.

If you need assistance in using this new method, please contact the Campus Support Officer at your campus. Alternatively, you can email support@cit.uws.edu.au.