Using the PopNet from your Windows machine with Xming
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Unix
With Xming software you can login to our unix network and run graphical applications and access data in our archive.
From the PRI lab
Windows machines in 806 Oswald have Xming software installed.
- From the Start menu select Programs-->Xming-->Xming. You should see the xming icon at the bottom of your screen.
- Refer to the list of machines and the statistical software they are running to determine which machine you want to login to.
- From the Start menu, select Programs-->SSH Secure Shell-->Secure Shell Client
- Use the Quick Connect button to login to the unix machine of your choice using your PRI Popnet account id/pw
Running software applications
Once you have logged in, running graphical applications is just as easy as being on a unix machine. Just type your command and it should display.
Here are some launch commands for popular unix applications:
| Software |
Command to launch |
|---|---|
| SAS (with graphical user interface) |
sas |
| Konqueror File Manager |
konqueror |
| R-project (shell) |
R |
| R-project (console) |
R --gui=Tk |
| Stata/se | stata |
| Stata (intercooled) |
xstata |
| OpenOffice | ooffice |
| Pine Email |
pine |
| Stat/Transfer |
st |
Accessing the data archive
To access the SAS datasets in the SodaPop archive:
cd /nfs/sodapop/sas_data
To access raw data:
cd /nfs/data/public
Additional XMing help
Xming is free software, if you would like help acquiring/installing it on your personal machine, contact the PRI help team at help@pop.psu.edu
