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Information about Windows on student computers

Location and equipment of student computers

nereis01–nereis22, room A215

  • Hardware: Intel Core i5-8400 @ 2.8 GHz (quad-core, integrated graphics), 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, 24" LCD
  • Software: basic software suite, Hades, Inkscape, Intalio Designer

naiada01–naiada24, room C118

  • Hardware: Intel Core i5-8400 @ 2.8 GHz (quad-core, integrated graphics), 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, 24" LCD
  • Software: basic software suite and Processing

sirene01–sirene28, room C119

  • Hardware: Intel Core i7-8700 @ 3.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card, 32" LG 4K LCD
  • Software: basic software suite, Lingea Lexicon EN-CZ, Avid Codecs LEhide, GUI Design Studio Pro, Inkscape

faiax01–faiax12, room C403

  • Hardware: Intel Core i7-8700 @ 3.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card, 32" LG 4K LCD
  • SW: basic software suite and Blender

titan01–titan20, PC hall

  • Hardware: Intel Core i5-8400 @ 2.8 GHz (quad-core, integrated graphics), 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, 24" LCD
  • Software: basic software package and Lingea Lexicon EN-CZ, Tinn-R, TortoiseHG

Basic software suite

  • Operating system: Windows 11 Education x64 EN
  • Programmes: 7zip, Altap Salamander, Adobe Reader DC, BlueJ, Doxygen, Firefox, Flash Player, GhostScript & GhostView, Gimp, Git, Google Chrome, Irfan View, Java, K-Lite Codec Pack, PotPlayer, Matlab, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, Media Player Classic, NetBeans, Notepad++, LibreOffice, Opera, PsPad, PuTTY, Python, R, SlikSVN, Texlive, TeXnicCenter, TeXworks, TortoiseSVN, VirtualBox, VLC, Winamp, WinShell, XnView, Xming
  • and further information

Access to installed software

As searching for applications in the Start menu in Windows 11 may not suit everyone, a ‘Programs’ shortcut has been placed on the desktop, providing access to shortcuts for all installed programmes, categorised into sections.

Available drives

  • C:\ — local hard drive. On all machines, the ‘C:\TEMP ’ folders are available here, which are shared amongst students’ computers
  • G:\ —\\ad.fi.muni.cz\DFS\bin – programmes not installed locally but accessible over the network
  • H:\ —\\ad.fi.muni.cz\DFS\home\login, the user’s home directory
  • I:\ —\\ad.fi.muni.cz\DFS\temp, a shared drive accessible for writing. If necessary, this will be cleared first; for larger volumes of data, please use the shared local TEMP directories instead
  • J:\ —\\home.fi.muni.cz\login, the user’s Unix home directory (see also here)
  • K:\ —\\home.fi.muni.cz\data-login, the user’s Unix ‘/data/login ’ directory (see also here)
Note: on theC:\ drive, users have read and write access to their so-called ‘C:\Users\login ’ profile (corresponding to\\ad.fi.muni.cz\DFS\profiles\login.v6, from where and to where data is copied when a user logs in and out) — however, we recommend leaving this directory for use by the operating system and programmes, and storing user data on the driveH:\, orJ:\ orK:\; see also below regarding exceeding the profile quota.

Shared TEMP directories between student workstations

Student workstations running Windows share theC:\TEMP directory amongst themselves. This means that if, for example, you save some data to theC:\TEMP directory on the machinenaiada12, you can later access it from another workstation, either directly via the path\\naiada12\temp, or after mapping this directory to a free drive letter, in which case the procedure might be as follows:

  • PressWin + E to open the File Explorer window.
  • Select ‘This PC’ from the menu on the left-hand side
  • On the top bar, click the ‘Computer’ tab and then ‘Map Network Drive’
  • Change the ‘Drive’ if you wish to map it to a different drive letter (or leave the default)
  • In the Folder field, enter\\computer_name\temp
  • Click Finish

Shared TEMP directories are also accessible via the ‘smbclient ’ programme from the serveraisa or, more generally, from the faculty’s Unix machines, e.g. using the command
smbclient //jméno_stroje/temp -U NTFI\\váš_login

Please note that data in the TEMP directories is not backed up and may be deleted by the administrator if necessary. This does not happen often, but it can occur at any time: between semesters as part of a system reinstallation, or during a semester, typically when there is a need to free up disk space (in such cases, where possible, directories named after the user’s login will tend to be retained). Under normal circumstances, however, you can assume that data in the TEMP directories will remain intact at least until the end of the term. It is also worth bearing in mind that, unless you change the permissions on your data, by default anyone can not only read it but also delete it.

Logging out and exceeding the quota on a user profile upon logout

You can log out by clicking on the person icon in the Start menu and then selecting ‘Sign out’. The Start menu tile settings will not be retained after logging out.

When you sign out, the size of your profile – which will be saved back to the server – is checked (so that you have the same settings the next time you log in on a different machine in the classrooms or computer hall). If it is detected that your profile is taking up more space than is permitted, a dialogue box will appear with a message warning you that the limit has been exceeded. In this case, the system will not allow you to sign out until you have deleted files from your profile. The permitted profile size is 24MB.

As most of the profile is redirected to the user’s home directoryH:\_profile, you should not normally exceed the quota at all. This usually happens when an application (or the user themselves, although we do not recommend this) saves data to a non-standard part of the profile that is not redirected. If the quota is exceeded, a list of the files taking up the most space is displayed when you log out. When deleting files, it may be useful to enable the display of hidden and system files.

Password settings

If you forget your password or feel that your password is not working on FI systems (both Windows and Unix-based OSs), set a new one using the application on the IS. This password will be valid on all FI systems.

Access from FI student Unix workstations

You can connect to your home directory on the Faculty’s Windows systems, or to other drives (see above), from the student Unix workstations atnymfe. Instructions are available here.

Access via FTP

You can also access your home directory on the Faculty’s Windows servers remotely using a standard FTP client. The server name isakademos.fi.muni.cz, port 21; the username and password are the same as for the Windows workstations in the classrooms or the hall.

Access is permitted only from the MU network; machines outside this network may use the FI VPN or MU VPN. SSL is required for the transmission of the username and password (explicit, if the client allows the explicit/implicit option); the rest of the communication may, but does not have to, use SSL. Trouble-free operation has been verified, for example, with the open-source FileZilla client.

If you are using the Altap Salamander file manager, you may need to install the librarieslibeay32.dll andlibssl32.dll, for example from here (extract and copy them to%systemroot%\system32 or next to salamand.exe). Even then, however, it will not be possible to use both active mode and data connection encryption at the same time; this appears to be a bug in the FTP plugin (active mode is not essential, though, so this bug should not be too much of a hindrance).

Remote access to machines using Remote Desktop

Outside teaching hours – that is, at weekends and on weekdays from the end of lessons until one hour before the start of lessons in the relevant classroom – you can connect remotely to the machinessirene01–sirene05 (C119) andfaiax01–faiax05 (C403) via the Remote Desktop service. These machines are running continuously; under the same conditions, you can also connect to other machines in the aforementioned classrooms, provided they are running. Connections are permitted from computers within the CPS; from other computers, you must use the FI VPN or MU VPN. Connection options from various operating systems are described here; however, instead ofate.fi.muni.cz, you must enter the computer name in the formatsirene01.fi.muni.cz.

Remote users are required to check the current availability of computers (C119 and C403) before connecting and to select an unoccupied computer to connect to. The timetable for classroom lessons is available, amongst other places, via the link on the room maps provided. Administrators also reserve the right to disable remote access (e.g. if a classroom is being used for other purposes at the weekend). Maintenance or computer restarts may also take place during the times indicated.

Students are required to log out of the computers on weekdays at least one hour before the start of lessons. Logging out works in the same way as logging in locally, i.e. by clicking on the person icon in the Start menu and then selecting ‘Sign out’ (for any issues regarding exceeding your quota when logging out, see here). Simply closing the client by clicking the cross (whether in the top-right corner of the client window as standard, or in the connection bar if the client is in full-screen mode) will not log the user out.

In this way, it is possible to connect without any time limit to the LEMMA laboratory machines hypnos2, hypnos3, hypnos4 and hypnos5, on which you can, amongst other things, use programmes for editing video, images and electronic documents from the Adobe Creative Cloud Pro collection. The hypnos2, hypnos3 and hypnos5 machines are equipped with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 graphics cards, Intel Core i7-8400 six-core processors and 32 GiB of RAM. The hypnos4 machine is equipped with an NVIDIA RTX A4500 graphics card, an eight-core AMD EPYC 4364P processor and 32 GiB of RAM. Although the machines are currently available without restriction, it should be noted that they may be physically occupied by laboratory members even outside peak hours.