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Apple PowerBook Instructions
Connecting to the Network
When your PowerBook starts up, the Location Manager will ask you to choose from "Ethernet" or "Modem" settings. Choose Ethernet if you are connected to an Ethernet connection on campus, otherwise choose Modem.
Choosing the Ethernet or Modem option selects different TCP/IP control panel configurations for using your Internet software. Your AppleTalk control panel setting, for connecting to laser printers and servers in your Chooser, stays set to Ethernet in both configurations. When you dial into UMD using your modem our new upgraded modem pool now allows you to see campus AppleTalk zones in your Chooser just as you would when connected to Ethernet. This allows you to connect to laser printers and file servers (such as your www directory) from home.
You can switch between the Location Managers Ethernet and Modem settings at any time by choosing the Control Strip pop-up that looks like this:
Using your modem
Before dialing into the UMD modem pool for the first time, open your "Remote Access" control panel and enter your username and password into the boxes. Then, to test your dial-in software, click on the "Connect" button. If the dial-in works properly, the Connect button will change to "Disconnect." At that point try launching Mulberry or Netscape to make sure your Internet programs work. Once you know your dial-in software works properly, you can just launch an Internet application and your Mac will automatically dial into UMD.
To disconnect your modem, first quit all your Internet applications and then choose "Remote Access Disconnect" from the top of your Apple menu.
Printing
Your PowerBook comes with a number of Desktop Printers at the bottom of your screen for connecting to UMD ITSS lab printers as well as Desktop Printers for UMD Printshop printers.
You can select between any of your Desktop Printers from a pop-up option in any Print dialog box. You can also select one of your Desktop Printers by choosing the Control Strip pop-up that looks like this:
You can create a Desktop Printer for any campus printer via the LaserWriter 8 icon in the Chooser. However, the computer lab Desktop Printers were created a special way using the Desktop Printer Utility and cannot be recreated using the Chooser
If one of your ITSS computer lab Desktop Printers becomes missing or doesn't work properly, you'll need to use the Desktop Printer Utility to recreate it:
Using Keyed Applications
There are three applications on your computer for which only a limited number of licenses were purchased. These are:
Adobe Premiere® 5.1 (2 copies)
StudioPro 2.5.3 (1 copy)
VectorWorks 8.0.1 (5 copies)
These programs have been "keyed" and require a connection to the UMD ITSS Lab Keyserver in order to run (using the Key Access extension in the Chooser). The Lab Keyserver makes sure that there aren't more copies of these applications in use at one time then were purchased.
If you're connected to a campus ethernet connection your Mac will automatically be connected to the Lab Keyserver. You'll be connected to the Lab Keyserver when you dial-in by modem, too, but there's another way of obtaining "keys" for these programs so you don't have to stay dialed-in the entire time you're using them at home.
Key Checkout
Toward the top of your Apple menu you'll find a utility called Key Checkout. Key Checkout allows you to "check out" a license for one of these applications for a set period of time. Right now the maximum time a license can be checked out is two days.
To use the Key Checkout utility you must be connected to the campus AppleTalk network via Ethernet or by dialing into the campus modem pool. Until this fall, an AppleTalk connection via modem wasn't possible at UMD, but now any Macintosh with the Remote Access control panel (like your PowerBook) should see AppleTalk zones in the Chooser when it dials in.
Even though checking out keys using Key Access via a modem should work fairly reliably, dail-in AppleTalk is a relatively new service at UMD and you may want to check out a key before you leave campus (while connected to Ethernet) just to be sure of having access to the application at home.
When you launch the Key Checkout utility you'll see the available keys listed in the top half of the Key Checkout window:
To check out a key, drag the name of a program listed at the top half of the window to the Macintosh HD in the bottom half of the window. You'll then see a dialog box asking you how long you want to check out the license:
You can check out a key for up
to two days. During the time you have a key for an application
checked out there will be one less copy of that application available
to others. To check out a key for less than the maximum time,
enter a fractional day (i.e. 1.5), or enter in the date and time
you want to use the application til.
Once a key has expired you will no longer be able to launch that application until you check out another key (or until the Key Access extension in your Chooser is connected to the Lab Keyserver via Ethernet or dial-in modem). If you are running an application when a key expires you'll get frequent warnings to quit the application, but Key Access will not actually force the application to quit.
If you're finished with an application for which you have a key checked out and want to make that copy available to others you can drag the key from the bottom half of the Key Checkout window back to the upper half. You'll be asked if you want to return the key.
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