Windows Questions

General Windows Questions

These are some of the common Windows questions we are asked.

How do I connect to my Linux area?

There should be an icon on your desktop to your linux home area all ready. Just double click on that and it should open your linux file system.

But I don't have that icon!

Then you will need to create a new one.

• Right click on the desktop and choose "New" and then "Shortcut
• In the location window put "\\uggp\%username%"
• Click next
• Put in a meaningful name, such as "Linux home drive"
• Click finish

I need to connect to a shared directory somewhere else.

If you know where it is, substitute the machine and path in the shortcut above. For example, to connect to the shared folder PC307 on the machine projects, you would specify the shortcut location to be "\\projects\pc307".

If you do not know the name of the share, you will need to browse for it. If you know the machine name, then you can type "\\machine_name" in at the run command to get a listing of shares on that machine. If you don't know that either, you can bring up explorer, and use the left pane to go "explorer" --> "entire network" --> "uwa-csse" --> "machine" and look through the shares on that machine, choosing the relevent one.

What shortcut keys are there under windows?

There are a range of keys you can use:

There are other useful keys, look at the windows help for further details.