Student Accounts
Fullerton College Academic Computing Technologies provides FCNet accounts for students. This account will allow the student to have private and public space on the server, access to a private Exchange Email account, access to use software applications on the server and space to publish their own web page on the server. An account will be created for each Fullerton College student who
registers at Fullerton College.. In order to use the account, the student must agree to the Acceptable Use Policy, the Lab Policies, and present their student ID card or valid photo ID and class printout to the Lab Aide. Student accounts are
reset prior to the beginning of each new semester.
Saving files on the file server
Student accounts are allotted 50 megabytes of data storage for personal use on the server and
20 megabytes of mail storage space. To guarantee that your files will be saved for the entire semester you must store them in your home directory. Your home directory will always be mapped to a special drive volume named H:. Please note that due to space restrictions, all student accounts that are not renewed by the eleventh week of the semester will be purged.
The H: drive is mapped to the root of your user account, so no special path or subdirectories are required to find it. This means that if you want to save a file to your home directory, you name it by preceding it with H:\ and it will always be placed in your home directory. For example, to save a document named myfile.doc from Microsoft Word to your home directory you would name it h:\myfile.doc in the "save as" dialog box.
Accessing email
Your Internet email address is [perm-id]@fullcoll.edu For example, a user with the login id 39382647 would have an Internet email address as follows: 39382647@fullcoll.edu (note that there are no spaces.) Students are responsible for deleting old email and for keeping email within the allotted disk space limit. Prior to reaching your mailbox space limit you will receive notification from the system. When you receive this notice, delete all unnecessary email, empty your Sent and Deleted Items folders in Outlook, and save all mail attachments to your H: drive. If you exceed your mailbox space limitations you will be unable to receive mail. To access your email from off campus through a browser, go to
http://exchange.fullcoll.edu. Log in using your FCNet login name and password.
Publishing documents on the World Wide Web
World Wide Web documents or web pages (HTML - Hypertext Markup Language) may be made visible to everyone on the Internet by placing them in your web directory.
The network software has a web server that will find any documents placed on this drive and distribute them to anyone on the Internet who asks for them by name. The specific syntax or URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for these documents will be http://student*www.fullcoll.edu/ LOGIN_ID where * is replaced by the last digit of your 8-digit student ID number, and LOGIN_ID will be replaced with the network login id you use to log into the server (your 8-digit student ID number). Note that there are no spaces in the name and there is a colon and two forward slashes before student*www. Also, every slash in a URL is a forward slash, unlike a typical DOS path. For example, if 39382647 wanted to publish a home page named home.htm, she would create the document, and save it to her web drive as home.htm. Others could then access this document with a web browser from anywhere in the world by telling them to reference the HTML document named.
http://student7www.fullcoll.edu/39382647/home.htm
There is additionally one special file that is displayed if no explicit file name is given. The name is INDEX.HTM. If no explicit file name is given in the URL, then the web server will load this file if it exists. This feature can be used to reduce the length of the URL for your home page. If you name your home page index.htm, then you will only need to tell people to access http://student*www.fullcoll.edu/LOGIN_ID to get to your home page. Once again, * would be replaced with the last digit of your 8-digit student ID number and LOGIN_ID would be replaced with your own login id.
Web sites that have not been updated for 12 months will be deleted.
Activating a web drive
To activate your web drive, go to http://www.fullcoll.edu Log on using your FCNet Student account and click on User Profile. Scroll down to Account Options and click in the box next to "Yes, I would like to create a web account". Click on Create my account. Please wait while the system processes your request. When the Account Options box displays your new web page information, click on Index my web. Requesting this option does not mean that you must use FrontPage to create your web pages*. Account holders electing to use FrontPage as their web authoring tool should select Open Existing Web instead of Create New Web when creating or editing their pages.
Please Note: If you have used Microsoft FrontPage to create your FCNet Web site you should not manually access this site via FTP, or manual disk access via your W: drive letter. Due to the unique way that FrontPage formats the user data in your Web Site, manually over writing files that you are currently using in your FrontPage Web Site via FTP or the W: drive letter could cause your FrontPage project to become corrupted.
Who to contact if you have problems with your account:
If you find that you are unable to use your student account, or that your student account has become disabled in some way, the person to contact about getting it straightened out is Dawnmarie Neate.
Her office is located in T7, and her phone number is (714)
992-7000, extension 25105. You may also reach Dawnmarie by sending email to: dneate@fullcoll.edu
