NBER Account Setup

Initial Setup

You will want to do the following:

Create yourself a directory on a (local - i.e. scratch7 or scratch8 on nber7) scratch volume and link it:

mkdir /disk/scratch8/username
ln  -s /disk/scratch8/edegan/ scratch

Create your web directory (accessible at www.nber.org/~username:

mkdir public_html
chmod ugo+r public_html

Connecting Remotely

Using sftp is straight forward:

1. Download the sftp client (OpenSSH) from: [1] (you only need to install the client)
2. Run sftp from your command line
3. Use it.

Using Samba is currently giving me problems.

However, there is a help guide, and if you are using windows 7 then search cmd.exe, right click, run as adminstrator, and then rype: hdwwiz.exe to run the hardware wizzard. From this point on, in installation is as in the guide. The loopback adaptor is under 'Windows', when you browse for the adaptor.