ECE Majors, ECE Graduate Students, and students currently registered for courses which require access to ECE computer labs are eligible to create an ECES account on PLUS.

Login to the PLUS system here:

plus.colorado.edu

Step-by-step directions for creating your account with PLUS can be found here:

Step-By-Step How To for ECES PLUS Self Account Creation

To use PLUS you must know your CUID and PIN.

If PLUS does not allow you to create an account on ECES, please contact ecehelp@colorado.edu.

If you have problems using or logging into PLUS, take a look at the PLUS FAQ:

plus.colorado.edu/faqs.html

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT PLUS:
PLUS only works for CU-Boulder students. Continuing Ed students, faculty, or other non-CU-Boulder students should contact ecehelp@colorado.edu for help with getting an account.

There are a number of ways to change your password on ECES.

Students with access to the PLUS system should change their passwords using Self Account Creation on PLUS:

IMPORTANT NOTE

For the time being, please do not use the following characters in your password when changing your password with plus: / \ | @
Plus will allow you to set a password with these characters, but your Windows Access password will not be correctly updated on ECES.

We are working on the problem.

plus.colorado.edu

Step-by-step directions for doing this can be found here:

Step-By-Step How To for ECES PLUS Password Change

Users can change their Windows Access password when logged into a Windows 2000 computer in an ECE computer lab by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del and choosing the "Change Password" option.

Users can change their Unix Access and/or Windows passwords by connecting to ECES with SSH and selecting "Change your UNIX (SSH/SCP) password" or "Change your Windows (Samba) password" on the menu.

Users are required to enter their ECES login name and password in order to gain access to Windows 2000 computers in ECE computer labs, including the Student Resource Center.

Your ECES home directory will be mounted as drive Z: on the Windows 2000 machine. You should save all of your files to Z:.

Files saved on Z:, in your home directory, will be accessible to you from other ECE computer labs as well as on the ECES Student Server directly. These files will also be backed up nightly.

Files saved on the hard drives of ECE computer lab computers may be deleted without warning.

To learn how to setup printers in the labs, go here:

Step-By-Step How To for Printing in the ECE Computer Labs

NEW NOTE ABOUT "MY DOCUMENTS" AND THE WINDOWS DESKTOP

Changes were made to Windows Roaming Profiles on August 23, 2004.

Files saved in My Documents can now be found in Z:\Windows Folders\My Documents or, on the Unix side, ~/Windows\ Folders/My\ Docuemnents/.

Files saved on the Desktop can now be found in Z:\Windows Folders\Desktop or, on the Unix side, ~/Windows\ Folders/Desktop/.

To access ECES from almost anywhere, use SSH secure shell software. Many SSH clients will also provide file transfer capabilities via SCP secure copy.

You can get some SSH/SCP client software here:

Windows	SSH Secure Shell 3.2.9
Mac OS 9 or earlier	Niftytelnet-1.1
Mac OS X	SSH is included in the OS X system.
Linux/Unix/BSD	SSH is included in most distributions/versions.

If none of those work for you, or if you are at a computer where you can't install software, you can point your java-enabled web browser at this java SSH/SCP client (it might take a while to load):

eces.colorado.edu/mindterm

To make things easier for users who are unfamiliar with using the Unix command-line, SSH'ing into ECES now presents you with a menu of common tasks.

If you need/want a Unix command-line environment, you can SSH to eces-shell.colorado.edu.

You can connect to ECES with the SCP clients listed above to transfer files back and forth from ECES to your personal computer without knowing much about Unix. You don't have to know anything about Unix to access the Windows 2000 computers in the ECE computer labs.

If you want a very brief primer on using the Unix shell (what you get when you login to eces-shell with SSH), look here:

A Dangerously Brief Unix Primer

Like other student Unix servers at CU-Boulder (e.g. ucsu, ucsub) ECES can be used to receive e-mail and/or publish your own web pages.

E-mail on ECES
You do not need to setup e-mail on ECES. It is completely optional.

Check out this page for more info about e-mail on ECES:

Information on ECES E-mail

For directions on using PLUS to change your mailhome to ECES:

Using PLUS to Change Your Mailhome to ECES

Web Publishing on ECES
You can use ECES to publish web pages related to your academic work.

For policies concerning the proper use of web publishing on ECES and at CU-Boulder, be sure to read these web pages:

ECES Policies
CU-Boulder Web Publishing Policies

Keep in mind that you are personally responsible for assuring that web pages you publish do not violate any policies or laws.

ECE system administrators are not responsible for teaching you how to setup or construct your web pages. For general information on setting up and accessing a web page on ECES, go here:

ECES Web Publishing HowTo

Using virtual private networking (VPN) software will allow any internet connected computer to access CU computer and network resources as if it were an on-campus computer. This is especially useful when connecting from other institutions and businesses and for users with home broadband connections. Information on connecting to CU-Boulder's VPN can be found here:

vpn.colorado.edu

Both of the above services require a CU Identikey and Password.

If you are already connected to the internet but have trouble accessing the ECES Student Server, please contact ecehelp@colorado.edu.