- How can I access my images from outside School of Medicine?
Although every microscope in the Facility has Ethernet access (and hence, some of the drives shared and visible between the machines), we recommend that you store your images on the Microscope Facility's Server (1 Tb capacity that will be upgraded and re-mapped in the next year). With the appropriate login and password (not to be divulged here!), you can get your image data from any computer on the School of Medicine network. Remember that the Hopkins network is generally 100 Mbits/s (~10s to transfer a 100 Mb image file).
However, if you are not on campus or not part of the School of Medicine network (apparently School of Public Health is on a separate network!), you need special software installed on your computer to get to the server. Go to http://www.it.jhu.edu/remoteaccess.html to acquire JHSecure, which is Johns Hopkins Virtual Private Network (VPN) service. You'll need a valid JHED login and password, both to download the free program and to login every time you use VPN. If you don't have a JHED identity, go to http://jhed.johnshopkins.edu/ to establish one.
With JHSecure VPN active, you'll not only get access to the Microscope Facility Server, you'll also have access to all School of Medicine services as if you were physically on campus. It's very, very handy! Such services include access to Welch Medical Library holdings so that articles can be downloaded (not available off-campus otherwise).
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- How do I get to the Microscope Facility Server?
Windows: From Windows Explorer, type "\\162.129.230.229\" (omit the quotations; note the back-slashes are different than the more common forward-slash used to denote ratios and fractions) into the Address bar, press "Enter" on your keyboard (or click the "Go" button) and then you'll get a window prompting you for login and password. Normal Windows navigation should move you across the server directory structure. For convenience, you can right-click the directory folder that you commonly use, and create a shortcut on your desktop that automatically navigates to that directory. See also File Management and Micfac Server Access.
If you don't know how to open Windows Explorer directly, here are some quick methods. (a) double-click the "My Computer" icon on your desktop, if it's there. (b) from the "start" menu in the lower-left corner, navigate the submenus: Programs>Accessories>Windows Explorer (if you have "Personalized Menus" active, wait a few seconds with each menu, and it ought to expand to show all the choices in the menu, rather than the items you used last). (c) from the "start" menu in the lower-left corner, select "Run...", type "explorer" (without the quotations), and press "Enter" on your keyboard (or click "OK" button).
Macintosh: I haven't used Mac since OS6. Can someone email me instrustions so that I can post it here?
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- I've forgotten the login/passwords for computers/microscopes/server. What are they?
All computers and servers in the Microscope Facility are protected by requiring users to enter login names and passwords. For obvious reasons, we will not put the information as plain text on the web. Until more sophisticated methods can be implemented, I'm using JShare (JHU file sharing) to distribute the informaiton in a secure manner. Please go to my JShare site to go to the login/password file (https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/skuo1/MicFac/MicFacLogin.txt). You will be prompted for your JHED login and password (JHED is how you get to your JHU email and to your paychecks/W-2 form/benefits elections). Eventually, parts of this website will be operating with JHED authentication, but, until then, JShare will provide the interim solution.
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