Welcome back for Fall 2008!

The biggest news is that we have completely replaced the troubled storage system on ECES.

We believe this system was the cause of all of our stability issues in the Spring 2008 semester. We're hopeful that those problems are solved.

We will also be getting new printers in ECEE 2B39, the Embedded Labs, and ECEE 2B37, the Logic Lab. These should be here the first week of classes.

Older ECES News

The ECES Student Server is a Unix computer owned and operated by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The ECES Student Server is generally accessed in two ways:

As a Windows Server From Within ECE Computer Labs
ECES is the Primary Domain Controller for the Windows 2000 computers in the ECE computer labs. This means it validates logins and passwords to allow users to login to the client computers in the labs, and it hosts users' home directories, the Z: drive, on the client computers.

As a Unix Server From Anywhere
ECES is accessible from anywhere on the internet, including the ECE computer labs, as eces.colorado.edu. As a Unix server, eces.colorado.edu is accessilbe via SSH. File transfers can be performed via SCP. E-mail services are available via IMAP SSL and POP SSL or on the web at eces.colorado.edu/webmail. And, as evidenced by this page, you can access ECES web pages at eces.colorado.edu.

Anyone currently registered for a course which requires use of an ECE computer lab must obtain an ECES account.

An ECES account login and password is required to access any computer in an ECE computer lab. Your ECES account will also provide you with a place to store data while working in the ECE computer labs and will provide you with access to this data from inside and outside of the labs.

An ECES account login and password is also required to access the computers in the ECE Student Resource Center.

University of Colorado Undergraduates majoring in ECE, graduate students in the ECE Department, and ECE Faculty are all elligible to maintain an account on the ECES Student Server for the duration of their affiliation with the department.

Additionally, any students registered for a CU or CU Continuing Education course requiring them to use an ECE computer lab are eligible to maintain an account on the ECES Student Server for the durration of their enrollment in that course.

If you are an ECE undergraduate or graduate student or are currently registered for a course which uses an ECE computer lab, please refer to the ECES Policies page and the Getting Started page to find out about creating and using your ECES account.