How To Access Patas

Command Line Access

MacOS

Run Terminal (under Applications/Utilities). At the command prompt, type:

ssh user@patas.ling.washington.edu

...substituting your UW NetID for "user." The first time you do this, you'll get a warning about an unknown host key; type "yes" (the full word) and hit Enter to continue. You will then be prompted for your CompLing password.

Windows

You will need an SSH client, such as Tera Term Pro (on the UWICK CD) or PuTTY.

Open your client and connect to patas.ling.washington.edu. Log in with your UW NetID and CompLing password.

Transferring Files

MacOS

You can use any SFTP client. Fugu is my favorite. (Note there is one minor bug in most versions of Fugu; if you cancel a transfer in progress, you must close Fugu completely or all other transfers will fail.)

If you're comfortable with the command line, you can also open Terminal and use the sftp command included with MacOS, much like ssh is used above.

In either case, the login details are the same as for command line access.

Windows

You can use any SFTP client. The UWICK CD comes with Tectia Secure Shell client. WinSCP also works very well. The login details are the same as for command line access.

Network Filesystem Access

If you are connecting from the UW campus, you may access some of the files on patas directly through our Samba fileserver.

Note: Accounts created before July 2008 do not have Samba access by default. If you have one of these accounts and would like Samba access, email linghelp@u to request it.

MacOS

Open Finder and click Go, Connect To Server. (Shortcut: ?K)

In the Server Address box, type:

smb://pongo.ling.washington.edu/

Click Connect. You will be prompted for your username and password; put in your UW NetID and your CompLing password, and make sure the Registered User box is checked. You should then see a dialog box asking you which network share you want to mount. (The one with the same name as your NetID is your home directory.) Once you click OK, the share will be mounted and you'll be able to access it like you would any other disk.

Windows

Click Start, My Network Places. In the address bar at the top of the window, type:

\\pongo.ling.washington.edu\

You will be prompted for your username and password; put in your UW NetID and your CompLing password. You should then be able to browse the server.

Alternatively, you can click Tools, Map Network Drive. Select a drive letter, then enter the address of the share you want in the "Folder" box; for example

\\pongo.ling.washington.edu\corpora

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-- Main.brodbd - 13 Oct 2008