Technical FAQ
ANDROID
AUDIO/VIDEO
CALENDAR
CONNECTIVITY
DATABASES
EMAIL
FTP
GOOGLE APPS
iOS
MISCELLANEOUS
PASSWORD
PRINTING
REMOTE ACCESS
SOFTWARE
UNIX SUPPORT
VPN ACCESS
WEB
WINDOWS SUPPORT
WIRELESS/NETWORK ACCESS
CALENDAR 
- How to create a room reservation in Google Apps?
- How to invite guests to events or meetings in Google Calendar?
- How to share a calendar publically on the internet?
- How to share a Google Calendar with specific users?
- How to add a calendar to the Thunderbird Email Client?
- List of CS Department Calendars
- How to Subscribe to Classroom Calendars?
FTP
- How do I set up my browser to use the web proxy? or I cannot ftp files through my browser? or I cannot open an ftp directory through my browser? or All ftp links time out through the webbrowser? or I cannot view a webpage, because it sends data on a higher data port?
- How to ftp, now that ftp is turned off?
- When I ftp to ftp.cs.sunysb.edu (or some other ftp server) ls does not give me a full directory listing?
GOOGLE APPS
- How can I archive emails?
- How to change the default settings (e.g. font, mail format, etc.) of outgoing emails in the Gmail web interface?
- How to change your password in Google Apps?
- How to grant others access to your Google Apps account?
- How to download items from Google Drive to Local Machine?
- How to migrating from exchange to Google Apps?
- How to mark emails as spam in Google Mail?
- How to set up forwarding for all incoming messages in Google Apps?
- How to use Gmail Filters?
- How can I migrate my current email and data to Google Apps?
- How to set an automated Out of Office Reply in Gmail?
- Tips on Getting Started with Google Apps?
- How to Set up Google Apps in Outlook with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook?
MISCELLANEOUS
- Are there any guidelines for choosing a password?
- How can I report requests or problems?
- How can a department member obtain Mathematica or Maple for personal use?
- How can I submit HW assignments?
- I clicked on a Real Player video/sound clip and I am getting sound but no video or vice versa.
- When I click on a video within Netscape, I get an alert from Real Player saying "Unable to connect to server -- Check network transport settings"
- How to access the VMware account and install Ubuntu using vSphere client?
- How to manage snapshots using vSphere client?
- Installing Ubuntu on the Virtual Machine from an image?
- Services Available with Department Credentials
PRINTING
- How to Access Department Copy Machines and Printers?
- What printing facilities are available in the department for student use?
- How to Install HP Copier on a Windows Machine Not in the Computer Science Domain?
- How to Install HP Copier for Linux?
- How to Install HP Copier for MacOS?
- How to Install Toshiba Copier on a Windows Machine Not in the Computer Science Domain?
- How to Install Toshiba Copier on Linux?
- How to Install Toshiba Copier for MacOS?
- How do I print pdf files from a Unix host?
- Can I print an A4 document on the department printers?
- How do I print from Mozilla or Firefox?
- How do I convert files between Postscript (*.ps) and PDF (*.pdf) formats?
- How much can I print on department printers?
- How can I setup Remote Access?
- How do I connect to compute1?
- How do I set up SSH tunneling under Unix?
- How do I set up SSH tunneling on the PC?
- How do I set up SSH tunneling on the MAC?
- I set up a key pair, but when I ssh between two department hosts it still asks for my password, why?
- How do I use Xwin32 to connect from outside of the CS dept network?
- How to connect to Vmware based virtual machines?
- How do I set up Remote Desktop Web Access?
- How do connect to TS01 and TS02 Using Remote Desktop Web Access on a Windows Machine?
- How to connect to TS01 and TS02 Using Remote Desktop Web Access on an Apple Machine?
UNIX SUPPORT
- How can I recover a deleted file?
- What are my quota limits?
- How do I adjust the volume in Real Player on the Suns?
- How do I change my login shell to bash or tcsh?
- How do I run StarOffice?
- When I try to compile my C program on the Suns I get a "package not found" error.
- I compiled my program successfully but when I try to run the executable I get a library error similar to: ld.so.1: a.out: fatal: libstdc++.so.2.10.0: open failed: No such file or directory.
- I include "math.h" in a my C program but the gcc compiler doesn't recognize some of the functions such as "pow".
- I have a program which used to compile under gcc or g++, but now it generates a long list of errors. What happened?
- How can I convert files to/from Mac formats such as BinHex and MacBinary and Unix
- I am using Mozilla and the twm window manager and I cannot type into some of the text fields.
- How can I run Windows applications on my Unix machine?
- How do I use PGP?
- How can I encrypt a file without using PGP?
VPN ACCESS
- Connecting to SBU Computer Science Palo Alto Network GlobalProtect Gateway from Android
- Connecting to SBU Computer Science Palo Alto Network GlobalProtect Gateway from CentOS
- Connecting to SBU Computer Science Palo Alto Network GlobalProtect Gateway from Debian
- Connecting to SBU Computer Science Palo Alto Network GlobalProtect Gateway from iOS Device
- Connecting to SBU Computer Science Palo Alto Network GlobalProtect Gateway from Linux Mint
- Connecting to SBU Computer Science Palo Alto Network GlobalProtect Gateway from OS X
- Connecting to SBU Computer Science Palo Alto Network GlobalProtect Gateway from Red Hat
- Connecting to SBU Computer Science Palo Alto Network GlobalProtect Gateway from Ubuntu
- Connecting to SBU Computer Science Palo Alto Network GlobalProtect Gateway from Windows
WEB
- How do I fix "invalid security certificate" error when connecting to the CS webserver?
- How do I publish my web pages on the department WWW server? Should we ftp to the compute servers or directly to the web server?
- How do I Password Protect my web page?
- How do I set up a www redirect page?
- How can I avoid using the "mailto:" tag on my website to prevent spam?
- Can I use Server Side Include files in my webpage?
- How can I install fonts on Windows/Linux?
- How to update Calendar for events (This is replacing the wiki)
- How to update the official faculty pages