News
 Documentation Help |
TrainingLabs Contacts |
ConnectingAbout
Purchases |
PoliciesTTU Home ITS
Home |
Getting Started:
PC Labs, Gemini, and Email Overview
|
As a student, you have access to at least two different accounts. One is your email account (Gemini) and the other is a University PC Lab account. You can access your email account in several ways. It you use WebMail you can check your email anywhere you have access to the internet.
To find your username, go to http://www.tntech.edu/phonedirectory/default.htm and search for your name. The first part of your email address before the @ is your username.
In a University PC Lab
to log in press: CTRL + ALT + DEL| Example for Jane Q. Smithsonian SS# 123-45-6789 |
User Name:
jqsmithson21 Password: 123456789 Note that only *s will show, not your password. |
If the server rejects your login,
try again to be sure you didn’t make a typo. If you still can’t logon, go to Clement Hall 226 and ask Operations (at the window) to reset your PC Lab password to your social security number.
The first time you login to your PC lab account, a box will appear notifying you that "You are required to change your password at first logon."
In the PC Labs, your password is CASE SENSITIVE so whether a character is typed as a capital or small letter matters to the system. Be sure the CAPS lock is off.
Choose a password of 6 or more characters that you can easily remember, using letters and digits. No spaces or special characters, such as #, $, or %, are allowed. No spaces are allowed. Also, you cannot use common words found on the system dictionary. You could use the first letters of a phrase with some numbers, such as "I am here to learn until 2007" which would make your password: iahtlu2007
Choose a password that you will remember. Keep your password secure; don’t give it to anyone else, or leave it where someone could see it. You are responsible for your account.
It is a good practice to reset your password at least as often as the
beginning of each semester.
To reset your PC Lab password at any time:
All student mail accounts reside on the Gemini server.
Your username on Gemini is the same as it is for your PC Lab Account. To use your email for the first time, you must change your password on Gemini, which is initially set to your social security number. It is also good practice to change your password from time to time, at least at the beginning of each semester.Choose a password of 6 or more characters that you can easily remember, using letters and digits. No spaces or special characters, such as #, $, or %, are allowed. No spaces are allowed. Also, you cannot use common words found on the system dictionary. You could use the first letters of a phrase with some numbers, such as "I am here to learn until 2007" which would make your password: iahtlu2007 Your PC Lab and Gemini passwords can be the same.
When you first logon in one of the PC Labs, the Internet Explorer browser will be launched to display campus announcements.
Click on the
Under Current Students scroll down the page to Technology
Select: Change your passwords online.
Select Change email password on Gemini.
You have a limited amount of space available on Gemini, so delete mail messages and files you do not need. YOUR EMAIL WILL NOT BE DELIVERED IF YOUR QUOTA IS FULL.
Each student is allocated space on the U:User drive. This is 50 MB in size. You can save files to this space and they will be there the next time you logon.
You also have access to temporary storage space under the T: directory. Files that you place here will be deleted when the next person logs in.
You access each of these drives from the Start menu under Programs —› Windows NT Explorer.
To logoff your PC lab account, double click on the Windows NT Logoff icon on the desktop. Be sure that you have activated the logoff and not just selected the icon without actually double clicking on it. If you do not logoff, someone else could use your account.
Please note that your EMAIL WILL NOT BE DELIVERED IF YOUR DISK QUOTA IS FULL ON GEMINI. Also, the maximum size of an individual message including attachments and the necessary email overhead may not exceed 3 MG.
In the PC Labs, click on the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop. On the TTU Home Page, click on the link to WebMail in the menu bar near the top of the page or type the URL: webmail.tntech.edu
At the WebMail Login Screen:
Click on the Compose button to begin typing a message.
Type email addresses as
jqsmithson21@tntech.edu or myfriend@harvard.edu
See the handout WebMail Basics in the lab or on the TTU Home Page under Computing —› Publications for more details.
Please note that your EMAIL WILL NOT BE DELIVERED IF YOUR DISK QUOTA IS FULL ON GEMINI. Also, the maximum size of an individual message including attachments may not exceed 3 MG.
In the PC Labs, click on the Outlook Express icon on the desktop.
If this is the first time you are using Outlook Express:
See Introduction to Outlook Express for more details on using Outlook Express v. 5.
Please note that your EMAIL WILL NOT BE DELIVERED IF YOUR DISK QUOTA IS FULL ON GEMINI. Also, the maximum size of an individual message including attachments may not exceed 3 MG.
To send a message:
Select C COMPOSE MESSAGE and press [Enter] or select Send > Compose Message from the pulldown menus at the top.
To:
jqsmithson21 (For example to Jane Q. Smithsonian)
Cc: jbsmith24 (Also send a copy to John B. Smith)
Attchmnt:
Subject: Friday’s Party (Type an appropriate
subject.)
-----Message Text-----
Type your message here.
If you wish to send to someone on the internet, use the full address such as jsmith@univ.edu
Click on ^X (CTRL X) in the menu at the bottom of the screen to send or from the pulldown menu at the top, select Compose and then Send. In the dialog box, click on Yes‘Y’ to send.
Reading a message:
From the Main Menu, select L Folder List and press [Enter] or from the pulldown menu at the top, Go > List Folders. Select the folder from which you wish to read your mail, such as INBOX for new mail or MAIL for messages you have read and press [Enter]. From the list of messages, select the one you wish to read and press [Enter].
Replying to a message:
To reply to a message you are reading, click on R Reply at the bottom of the screen or in the pulldown menu at the top, select Send > Reply. Edit and add your comments to the message.
To send your reply, click on ^X in the bottom menu and in the dialog box click on Yes‘Y’.
Saving a message to a file:
To save a message to a file, from the menu at the top select Message > Export. In the dialog box, click on To Files‘T’ to browse to the location at which you would like to save the file. Type a filename. The default format is .txt, text file. Click Save.
Deleting a message:
While reading a message, select Message > Delete from the menu at the top or use D Delete at the bottom. This marks the message for deletion.
To delete multiple messages, select Go > Index from the menu at the top. Select a message from the list and type D to mark for deletion or U to undelete.
To actually remove the messages, select Messages > Expunge from the top menu. Otherwise, the message will be expunged when you exit PC Pine.
To exit PC Pine:
Please note that your EMAIL WILL NOT BE DELIVERED IF YOUR DISK QUOTA IS FULL ON GEMINI. Also, the maximum size of an individual message including attachments may not exceed 3 MG.
Log onto Gemini.
In the PC Labs, double-click on the Gemini icon on the desktop. You will see:
Type your username and press [Enter].
Type your password and press [Enter].
Your username will be the same as it was for the PC Lab Account, but you will now be logging into Gemini.
When the $ appears, the system is ready to receive your
commands. For example,
will tell you how much disk space is available to you in blocks. You have a
limited amount of space available on Gemini, so delete mail messages and files
you do not need. YOUR EMAIL WILL NOT BE DELIVERED IF YOUR QUOTA IS
FULL.
To access your mail:
At the $ prompt, type mail and [Enter].
To send a message:
For example, to send a message to another student, Jane Q. Smithsonian, whose user name is jqsmithson21:
MAIL> send
To: jqsmithson21
Subject: Class Assignment
In VMS Mail, to send email off campus through the internet you must use the special syntax:
To: in%"jqsmithson@someuniv.edu"
Type your message in the EVE editor. Just start typing at the [End of file] line and your message will appear above it.
To send your message, press CTRL + Z (hold the Ctrl key and type Z).
In the PC labs, to cancel without sending:
To read a message in VMS Mail:
MAIL> read/new
This will display any new messages that you have received on screen.
MAIL> dir newmail
This will give you a directory listing of your new mail messages.
MAIL> dir mail
This will give you a directory listing of the messages previously received. You may then type the number of a message you wish to reread, and it will be displayed on screen.
To reply to a message:
With the message to which you wish to reply on screen, type:
MAIL> reply
This will invoke the EVE editor, and you will see the original message on your screen in EVE. Delete any extraneous text and type your reply. To send your message, press CTRL + Z. To cancel without sending, press CTRL + B or PF4 (minus sign on the numeric keypad in upper right corner), then type QUIT on the command line.
To save a message to a file:
With the message on screen that you want to extract to a file, type
MAIL> extract filename.extension
where the filename.extension is the name of the file that the message will be written into. After you exit mail, you may confirm that the new file exists by typing DIR at the $ prompt. Note that if you do not specify an extension, the default .txt will be used.
To delete messages:
MAIL> dir mail To get a directory listing of mail previously received
MAIL> del # Where # is the number of the message you wish to delete
You may also delete a range of messages. For example:
MAIL> del 1-8 Will delete messages numbered 1 through 8
MAIL> del 1,3,5 Will delete only messages 1, 3, and 5
To exit VMS Mail:
Mail> exit
To exit VMS Mail
$ lo
Abbreviation for logout to leave Gemini
Double-click the Logoff icon To logoff
the PC lab account
Documentation | ITS Home | TTU Home
Maintained by: