A Collection of How To Documents:

Maintained by: Hanz Makmur

• Account related
• Mail related
•    Signing Email using Digital Certificate
• Printing Related Documents
• Firewall and Broadband
• Filesharing Documents
• Microsoft Windows - How-To
• Scanning Document

Account related

• Obtaining accounts on systems maintained by LCSR Details of available accounts and what steps to follow to get accounts of LCSR Systems.

• Creating a RUCS account Any Rutgers student, full-time faculty member, or full-time staff member can create an account for themselves using automatic account creation software.

• Getting a Rutgers NetID In order to authenticate yourself for any number of services at Rutgers, you need a NetID and password.

Mail related

• Getting an Account on CS Central Mail Server (dragon.rutgers.edu)
  This takes you to the main page where you can create an account on CS Central Mail Server.
  More info: [What is it?] [Features] [What to expect] [Setting Up Mail Client] [FAQ]

• How To Share Your Mailboxes With Others
  This document shows you how to share your personal mailboxes with other users in our mail server. This feature is only available for users of CS Central Mail Server.

• How Access Share Mailboxes
  This document shows you how to access shared mailboxes made available by others to you. This feature is only available for users of CS Central Mail Server.

• Mail Expiration Warning Optout
  This Document explains hows to opt-out from Mail Expiration Warning which is generated whenever someone sends email to your expiring email address.

• Migrating Old Mail to CS Central Mail Server
  This document explains how to migrate old mail from users's old mailserver to CS Central Mail Server.

• Extracting Email From CS Central Mail Server
  This document explains how to extract your mail from CS Central Mail Server (dragon). This is useful for people who are leaving Rutgers and wants to take his/her mail out.

• Utilizing Computer Science Mailing List
  This document explains how to utilize CS mailing list and access the archives of the list.

• Administering Computer Science Mailing List
  This document explains how to administer CS mailing list.

• How to Get Rid of Spam Email.
  This document shows you how to get rid of spam email on your CS Mail accounts.

• Hiding Your Email Address from Spammer
  This is a script that generates Gif image from text.

• How do spammers get people's email addresses ?
  This comprehensive document show how your spammer get your email address. Use this document to help you avoid future spam.

• Anti-Spam Techniques
  A wikipedia article that shows you what common steps that are taken to reduce spam. Some of these steps are done centrally but as a user you need to learn End-user anti-spam techniques shown in this article.

• How to Avoid Getting my Email Discarded?
  All email addressed to user@cs.rutgers.edu, are checked for virus. We send warning to sender who send autoexecutable enclosure and discard the email.

• How to Avoid Getting my Email Blacklisted?
  All email addressed to user@cs.rutgers.edu, are checked against blacklisting service to reduce spam.

• How to Get Rid of Virus Warning.
  This document shows you how to get rid of virus warning by filtering them using Rules of the webmail interface.

• Dragon WebMail User Interface Guide
  This document explain dragon webmail features in detail.

  Signing Your Email using Digital Certificate

• Using Apple Mail to Sign your email digitally
  

• How to Get a VeriSign Digital ID and Install/Use it Use this document to configure your email client but get the free certificate from Thawte.
  

• How to Set Up Encrypted Mail on MacOS X A PDF file from O'Reilly - Shows you how to configure your MacOS X email client to send secure email.
  

Printing Related Documents

• How to Check Printer Queue Status?
  This page shows you the status of our Unix printer queue.

• Setting up Poscript Printer Queues on Windows 2000/XP
  This document shows you how to create a postscript printer queues on MS Windows.

• Creating A Postscript file on Windows
  This document explains how to create a Postscript file using any program in MS Windows.

• How to Add an LPR port on your Windows 2000/XP computer
  This document shows how to add LPR port on your Windows computer.

• Printing Posters from Power Point to Osterman
  This page shows you how to Print Posters from Power Point to Osterman (the poster printer).
  Notes:Osterman is an old printer with limited memory and processor speed. As such printing complicated poster with hi-res bitmap may yield out of memory/data lost error.
  Hints: Print your poster without bitmaps. Print your bitmap on a separate inkjet printer and paste it on the poster.

• How to Distill Postscript file to PDF
  This document shows hot to covert Postscript file to PDF.

• How to Create a FASTLANE PDF file
  This document shows how to avoid incompatible PDF, by creating PDF files according to FastLane requirements.

• How to Create a FASTLANE compatible PDF Job Option for Acrobat
  This document shows how to avoid incompatible PDF, by creating PDF files job option according to FastLane requirements.

• FastLane PDF Instructions for Proposal Preparation and Project Reporting If you are submitting proposal to FastLane, this document will explain to you how to create proper PDF formatted proposal.

• Using TeX and LATEX with NSF FastLane
  This FastLane document shows how to use TeX or LATEX to create FastLane acceptable proposals.

• Embedding Fonts
  This document describes why embedding fonts into your documents is important. Many people are not aware that document they write will not look as they intend to if they dont embed proper fonts into their document.

• Creating quality Adobe PDF files from TeX with DVIPS
  This document explains how to configure DVIPS program to use device-independent, scalable fonts in a PostScript language file or PDF document to achieve optimal font quality.

Firewall and Broadband

• Using SSH Tunnels as VPN to Run Services Behind Firewall
  This document shows you how to use SSH Tunneling techniques as VPN to access services behind firewall thus overcoming the block on NON Secure services.

• Securing and Sharing Your Home Broadband Connection
  This document explains how to secure and share your home broadband connection.

• Choosing Broadband
  This document shows available options on broadband connection for your home.
  

• Using Temporary Public Key Authentication with OpenSSH
  This document shows how to use Public Key Authentication with OpenSSH with Computer Science system .
  

Filesharing Documents

• Mounting RCI Disks Remotely on your Computer via Samba protocol
  This NBCS document explains how to setup a convenient way to transfer files between a local computer and Rutgers RCI account.

Microsoft Windows - How-To

• Using Microsoft Windows XP Professional How-To. Official Microsoft How To for Windows XP Pro.

• Using Microsoft Windows XP Home How-To. Official Microsoft How To for Windows XP Home.

• Microsoft Solutions How-To for IT Professionals. Official Microsoft How To. Complete Resources from TechNet.
  

Scanning Document

• Automatic Scanning of Printed Material using Xerox copier - Shows you how to scan printed material into electronic format the easy way.

• One touch Scanning to PDF Using a CanoScan D660U Scanner in Hill 354
  This document show how to scan directly to PDF by pushing a single button on a CanoScan scanner.

• How to Scan Images Using Canon D660U Scanner on Windows OS
  This document explains how to scan images manually on a CanoScan scanner.