Students wishing to gain access to pluto.cse.fau.edu must have their FAU "Network Access" account working properly. Please read FAU Network Access accounts page and follow the instructions given on that page to make sure your FAU Network Access account is working properly. We also recommend you read the FAUNet ID accounts page which has some userful informal about general FAU computer/network accounts.
1. To login to Pluto, you will need a secure shell (ssh) client. If you already have one installed and you are familiar with its use, you may skip the download and go to sections: 1-c. If you don't have one, you may download as following:
a) Download the freely available ssh client called Putty from the following link for your operating system.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
b) Once you have downloaded putty and saved it on your desktop, run it (if you get a security warning click "Run" first). It should look like this without the host names.
c) After you click the "Open" button the screen should look similar to the one below. (In this example, my Active Directory ID is "sjoseph".)
You must put the prefix fau\ without the double quote like so:
d) If everything went well your login should have been successful and you should see the following screen:
e) Type "exit" to exit out of pluto, and close the window.
2. Obtaining secure FTP client and uploading files to Pluto
a) Download the PSFTP.exe from the putty download page as you did for putty:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
b) Double click on the psftp icon (click "Run" if a security dialogbox pops up).
c)Type
open pluto.cse.fau.edu
d)Enter your username at username prompt with "fau\" prefix (e.g. fau\sjoseph)
e)Enter your Active Directory password when prompted.
f) Type "quit" to close SFTP session and client window.
We recommend using a graphical SFTP client such as WinSCP (download now) or for a more complete list of clients go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SFTP_clients