Requirements:

• telnet
• Internet connection
• Your user name and password for your mason account
• a classweb or Jiju account

Definitions:

If you want to use Microsoft Front Page or Netscape Composer to publish your web page to classweb or www.gmu.edu, you will need to make a symbolic link. A symbolic link is a link inside your mason account that links to your classweb or www.gmu.edu. So, it is simply another way to access your directory of these other two servers.

Steps:

1. Open telnet
2. Telnet to your mason account (mason.gmu.edu)
3. Login using your mason user ID and password

   For classweb, at the prompt, type:

   ln -s /usr/local/classweb/yourdirectoryname yourlinkname

   Your directory name is the name of your classweb directory - usually it is the same as your user name.

   Your link name is the name of the link you are making. It should be one word (no spaces).

4. For a site under the departments directory, www.gmu.edu, at the prompt, type:

   ln -s /usr/local/htdocs/departments/yourdirectoryname yourlinkname

   Your directory name is the name of your classweb directory - usually it is the same as your user name.

   Your link name is the name of the link you are making. It should be one word (no spaces).

   Note: this is for a directory under departments. i.e. with a URL http://www.gmu.edu/departments/yourdirectoryname. If your directory is under a different category (academic, facstaff, etc), you would put that category INSTEAD OF departments.



5. Logout of telnet