University Computing Services

Office Phone: 410-455-2577 Fax Number: 410-455-1065 Email: UCS@UMBC.EDU

Connecting to the WWW from Home

PPP Access

UCS is now offerring PPP access to campus users. PPP is the preferred method for people to connect to UMBC modems and use network applications such as Netscape from home. For more information, please consult the URL http://www.umbc.edu/ucs/doc/ppp.html for more information on using PPP.

TIA

TIA is an application that you run from your unix account that allows your home computer to use many network services such as netscape. In general, you will find it easier to configure and use PPP when connecting to UMBC. However, there are some reasons to use TIA. One example is if you live outside our modem area and use the Sailor network to reach us. Through their telnet facility you can use TIA to get Netscape access from home.

It is installed on alumni, UMBC7, UMBC8 and UMBC9. You must use a SLIP client on your home system in order to make a connection. Academic Computing is currently providing a Shareware/Freeware solution for:

Windows 3.1 and,
Macintosh.

The Windows distribution to support TIA is also available from the PC labs in the ECS building. Under the main menu labeled BC-PCLAB1, select item B. Shareware. You will need two 3.5in high density diskettes.

Faculty may pick up a copy of the distribution on diskette by going to ECS 003 between 9am and 5pm.

To unpack the distribution on a DOS machine, use the command

PKUNZIP -D TIA-UMBC.ZIP

PKUNZIP is available from the UMBC anonymous ftp server, ftp.umbc.edu.

Support for TIA

UCS cannot gaurentee that Tia will work for all people. We offer this as a service to the campus community but we do not gaurentee it will work. UCS resources are stretched very thin providing support for campus computers and we ask you follow the steps below if you have problems. First, please read the Online Documentation and post your question to the tia-users@lists.umbc.edu mailing list for support.

Faculty and staff who are having problems and wish to bring in their personal machines to have tia installed should contact the helpdesk at x3838. Someone will contact you and schedule a time for you to drop off the machine.

UMBC Installs 28.8 Modems

This link provides information on the new Ascend 28.8 modems installed at UMBC and UMCP to serve patrons in the Baltimore and Washington suburbs. To use the 28.8 modems with TIA you must update the TIA scripts. Here is an updated TIA script. When you view this file select SAVE AS and then name the file under the name c:\tia\trumphet\login.cmd.

Documentation on Using TIA

Please check the UMBC TIA FAQ before submitting a question.

Joel Wisner has created a FAQ page for Macintosh Tia Users

Mike Huber has created a page for installing TIA using Windows 95

If you want further information, check out The TIA FAQ Lists, PC and Mac setup guides, and other Documents that are directly available from marketplace.com, a service of Cyberspace Development, Inc.

UCS has created a mailing list for TIA support. You may post questions to the list and announcements on new packages will be posted there. To subscribe to the list send a message to majordomo@lists.umbc.edu. In the body of the message enter the line
subscribe tia-users.

To post a question to the list send mail to tia-users@lists.umbc.edu.

For more information on mailing lists consult The majordomo reference page.

Programs you may be interested in

Instructions for downloading the network applications.

This archive was intended to give World Wide Web users here at UMBC an opportunity to enhance their workstation environments by giving them access to window-based applications. These applications range from sound players to gopher and web browsers.

To download files from ftp.umbc.edu using this homepage

These are the instructions necessary to download files from the ftp.umbc.edu directory.

Select OPTIONS from the tool bar.
From the OPTIONS menu you will have to select LOAD TO DISK. This should be done only prior to clicking on the icon of the file that you would like to download, or every page that you access, you will get a prompt to save that file to disk.
Click on the icon of the file you want to download.

Gopher

Gopher is a menu based information service. UMBC's gopher server allows access to a number of useful utilities such as local weather forecasts, upcoming UBMC events, and menus of some local eateries.

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Lview 3.1

Lview 3.1 is a gif and jpeg viewer. This viewer is necessary when accessing WWW sites that will download pictures to your host for you to view. This application has some editing features and is very easy to use.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: 386/486-based machine with an SVGA monitor and 256-colors.

Mosaic 2.6a

Mosaic is a World Wide Web browser. This application will allow you to access anyone's home and even ftp sites. NOTE: Mosaic 2.6a requires that WIN 32 be installed.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:386/486-based machine with an SVGA monitor and 256-colors.

Mpeg movie player

MPeg is a movie viewer that will play files that are created in the mpeg format and have an extension of .mpg. If the .mpg file has sounds associated with it, mpeg will play them, assuming6 your system has a sound card. NOTE: Mpeg requires that WIN 32 be installed.