Login Access

• From Penn - Use SSH (version 2) to access kim.bio.
• From a local DSL/Cable internet provider - Use SSH (version 2) to access kim.bio.
• From elsewhere on the internet - Use SSH to access kim.bio.
  
  • For Windows computers without SSH installed: Putty.exe is a very small Windows SSH client that can be downloaded or run from a flash drive.
    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
• A windows SSH client can also be downloaded from the lab's ftp site. "SSHSecureShellClient-3.2.9.exe".
  http://kim.bio.upenn.edu/pub/software/telnet
• Macintosh users can use the SSH client that comes with OS X.

FTP Access

• From Penn - Use sftp ("secure ftp") to access kim.bio.
• From a local DSL/Cable internet provider - Use sftp to access kim.bio.
• From the internet - Use sftp to access kim.bio.
• A Windows sftp client can be downloaded from the lab's ftp site:
  http://kim.bio.upenn.edu/pub/software/telnet/SSHSecureShellClient-3.2.9.exe
• Macintosh users can use the sftp client that comes with OS X or Fetch which is provided by Penn.

VNC Access

• VNC is accesible from any lab computer. Access from outside of the lab is available via ssh tunnels to lab computers (see ConfiguringVNC).
• While it is possible to run VNC on any cluster machine. VNC should only be run on kimclust15, to reduce the impact of VNC on the cluster workstations. It is also requested that users disable screen savers in their VNC sessions. Contact StephenFisher if you have questions about how to change the window manager.
• A Windows VNC client can be downloaded from the lab's ftp site.
  http://kim.bio.upenn.edu/pub/ftp/vnc/vnc-3.3.7_win32_viewer.exe

Website/FTP Access

• "Lab FTP" ( http://kim.bio.upenn.edu/pub/software ) - Accessible from any lab computer using a web browser that can ftp (newer versions of IE and Netscape/Mozilla). This is a repository of freeware and shareware Windows based software that may be useful.
• Personal web folders ( http://kim.bio.upenn.edu/~{login}/public_html ) - Accessible from the internet. Lab members can host their own web pages. See WebSite for configuration information.