Remote Access

Faculty and Staff

Faculty and staff can access bigzilla.ece.gatech.edu from off-campus (i.e., from any Internet Service Provider (ISP)). All you have to do is ssh2 to bigzilla.ece.gatech.edu, and then ssh or sftp to the machine(s) you would like to access. See below for Windows clients that you can download. (NOTE: We only support v2 of the ssh protocol. The transfers by ftp over ssh and X11 forwarding features are also supported.)

To read email from home, faculty and staff can use any of the following:

Students

Anyone with an ECE account can access the machines listed below from off-campus (i.e., from any Internet Service Provider (ISP)). All you have to do is ssh2 to one of the following machines, and then ssh or sftp to the machine(s) you would like to access (NOTE: We only support v2 of the ssh protocol. The transfers by ftp over ssh and X11 forwarding features are also supported.):

yamsrv1.ece.gatech.edu
yamsrv2.ece.gatech.edu
yamsrv3.ece.gatech.edu
yamsrv4.ece.gatech.edu
ecelinsrv1.ece.gatech.edu
ecelinsrv2.ece.gatech.edu

Note: Jobs are limited to one interactive or background process per login for the machines above. Accounts running more than one job will lose login privileges for these machines for two weeks.

For more information about remote access to the Academic PC labs, please see http://www.ece-help.gatech.edu/labs/overview.html#remote.

For information on configuring a free X-Windows emulator for off campus use, please see http://www.ece-help.gatech.edu/faq/cygwin.html

Windows Users

You can download the following for Windows:

SecureCRT from software.oit.gatech.edu (after you have installed this software on your machine, click here for setup instructions)
WinSCP from software.oit.gatech.edu
SSH Windows GUI from ssh.com - Note that the SSH Secure Shell client is no longer provided by ssh.com. If you already have SSH Secure Shell on your machine, please visit our SSH Secure Shell setup instructions page.

UNIX Users

For UNIX, you will have to contact your network administrator to have ssh2 installed on your machine.

Last revised on April 9, 2008.