Using Telnet

Using Telnet on a PC
Using Telnet on a Macintosh

Using Telnet on a PC

Accessing PuTTY in the PC lab

From Windows:

First login to Charlie.
Go to the Start menu.
Select PuTTY under the NetApps group, and click on PuTTY.

On a personal Windows machine

Download PuTTY. The download link is not to an installer but to the actual program, so save it somewhere you can find it.
Open the downloaded PuTTY program.

Connecting to Odin

Set the Protocol to Telnet if it is not already selected by default.

In the Host Name dialog box type odin.ac.hmc.edu

Click Open.

Fill in your Odin login name and password when prompted.

Now you are logged into Odin. For a quick intro to using Odin read CIS' UNIX Basics page.

When you're done type logout and exit the program.

Using Telnet on a Macintosh

How to login to Odin from OS 9

In the Mac lab

To log in to Odin from the Macintosh Lab you will need to know both your Odin login name and password and your Charlie login name and password. You will use a Telnet program called NCSA Telnet.

Go to the Apple menu in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Click and hold down the mouse button and scroll down to the menu item labeled Charlie Applications. From the pop-up menu that appears next to this item select NCSA Telnet.
Since you will be running NCSA Telnet over the network from the file server Charlie the first thing you have to do is log in to Charlie. In the dialog box that appears type in your Charlie login name, hit the tab key to go to the password field and type in your Charlie password. Click OK (or hit the Return key).

Downloading NCSA Telnet to a personal machine

Download NCSA Telnet here, and launch it.

Connecting to Odin

When NCSA Telnet it has finished launching go to the File menu and choose Open Connection....

Enter odin.ac.hmc.edu as the host.

Your Odin session window should now appear. At the login prompt type your Odin login name and hit the Return key. At the password prompt type your Odin password and hit the Return key. You have now successfully logged in to Odin!

For a quick intro to using Odin read CIS' UNIX Basics page.

When you are finished working on Odin type logout to logout from your Odin session. Then from the File menu select Quit or hold down the command key and hit the Q key. You will also need to logout from Charlie. The easiest way is to just select Restart from the Special menu. Another way is to drag the icon on the desktop labeled Mac into the Trash.

How to login to Odin from OS X

To log in to Odin from the Macintosh Lab you will need to know both your Odin login name and password.

Go to the Utilities sub-folder of the Applications folder on the local Mac OS X volume. Double-click the Terminal Application.
At the prompt enter telnet odin.ac.hmc.edu If you are logged in to a Mac OS X machine on which your username is different than your Odin username you will need to add -l username into the previous command before hitting the Return key.
You will be asked to enter your Odin password. Do so and hit the Return key. You have now successfully logged in to Odin!
For a quick intro to using Odin read CIS' UNIX Basics page.
When you are finished working on Odin type logout to logout from your Odin session.

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