In order to use Windows on your Mac, hold down the option key (that’s the “alt” key for you longtime Windows users) at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows. After starting up, your Mac runs Windows natively just like a PC. Simply restart to come back to Mac OS X.
The following setions are related to maintaining the Windows installation on your Mac.
These exercises can be done on your own. Most should be done at your desk connected to the network via the Ethernet cable at your desk. Some can be done at home if you have a high speed (DSL or Cable) connection and are running the VPN Client.
The staff of Administrative Computing will be available periodically in your lab areas during the week of July 14th to answer any questions or help you with any problems. After July 18th, please use the online CaseMED Help Desk System or stop by room E-318, 12:30 – 4:30 weekdays or between classes, for assistance.
BootCamp: Getting Started
- Make sure your computer is plugged in and not running on battery power.
- Make sure your computer is plugged into the Ethernet cable at your desk.
- Turn it on and log in as you did during the Orientation:
- Login with your Case Network ID
- Enter your Case password
- In the third box, make sure it is set to: INS.CWRU.EDU (Kerberos Realm)
- Click OK.
BootCamp: Using the VPN Client
The VPN Client should be used when you need to have a Case Network IP address. What this means, is that the VPN software connects to the Case network and gets an IP address that says your computer is running from the Case network. Some resources on campus require a Case IP (129.22.*.*) before you can connect to them. Examples are: Software Center, PubMED, OhioLINK. You will also need to run VPN to print wirelessly.
The CaseGuest wireless network is unsecured. This means that you should use Case’s VPN software for anything private, such as e-mail. If VPN is not running and you are using any wireless connection to check your e-mail, your Case password will be transmitted in clear text. Anyone with a little effort would be able to capture your password. In addition, if you use VPN while on the wireless network at Case, your connection will be given priority and you will have a substantially faster connection speed.
You SHOULD NOT run the VPN Client when you are connected to the wired Ethernet cable at your desk. They are mutually exclusive.
Start using VPN:
- Click the yellow padlock icon in the Quick Launch toolbar (Next to Start button). You can also go to the Start menu, then All Programs, then find Cisco Systems VPN Client, then select VPN Client.
- Click the Connect button.
- Login with your CaseNetworkID and password.
- You will see a warning stating that if you proceed you agree to Case’s computer use policies. Press Enter or click Continue to continue.
- In a moment, you will notice a closed yellow padlock in your Task Tray in the lower right of your screen.
- You are now in business and have a secure Internet connection along with a 129.22.*.* IP address.
Note that if you close the lid of your notebook and later open it up, the lock icon will change to be open and you will have lost your VPN connection. Just right-click on the icon, select Re-connect and login again.
The next several sections cover installing Case site licensed software from the software center and other commonly needed/used applications and utilities. You can install other programs from the Software Center, but the ones listed below are the ones that you will most commonly need.
BootCamp: Connecting to the Case Network and the Internet
If you are on campus, you can connect to the Case Network in two ways.
- Wired at your desk
- Connect the Ethernet cable at your desk to the port on your computer. Be sure to do this before you turn your computer on.
- Logging onto Windows will automatically log you onto the Case Network.
- Wireless connectivity to the Case Network is available in nearly every building on campus as well as from many outdoor areas. NOTE: Case’s wireless does not work in University Hospital (UH) buildings.
- When using the wireless system, access to some university and CaseMed resources will require you to be connected to the VPN servers.
- Cleveland offers the One Community wireless access in an approximately 5 square mile around the Case campus.
BootCamp: School of Medicine Network
The network resource you will want to make use of is the FileTransfer area (often called the “T Drive” as that is what we map it to). There are several gigabytes of files used by students on this network share. Rather than sending large files to everyone via e-mail, a better way is to put the large files here, then send an announcement to the class that the file is in the File Transfer folder. The “T Drive” is available at any time you are plugged in to a network cable here on campus or are using VPN on wireless.
From off-campus, we suggest you use the WebDrive application. WebDrive can be run by clicking on the WebDrive icon in your Quicklaunch Menu.
Note: We configured the FileTransfer drive letter to be the letter T in WebDrive as well as when you are on the campus’s physical network cable. This may cause a conflict. If you experience this conflict, select the drive letter W: from the WebDrive menu and they will get along just fine.
Lecture Videos:
Older lecture videos are stored in the V: Drive. This can be reached by running WebDrive and selecting Lecture Videos then clicking on the Connect button on the right side of the screen. The folders Year103, Year104, Year105, Year 106, Year203, Year204, Year205, and Year 206 contain the actual video streams of lectures from the pre-WR2 eCurriculum. These files are linked from within the pre-WR2 eCurriculum (https://ecurriculum.case.edu). But, if you ever want to get the video file from the lecture, note the URL to the video, then come to the appropriate folder and drill down to find it. Then you can copy the file to your hard drive.
BootCamp: Set up Printing
We have endeavored to automatically set up your printers so that they are all listed for you when you log into your computer. Click on Start, then Printers and Faxes, then right-click the duplex printer whose name is the same as your society’s. Select Set as Default Printer
In the event that this automatic setup is not working, we are including instructions for manual configuration of the printers:
If the automatic printer setup did not run, then we recommend that you go through these steps at least twice to set up at least the two printers in your society room. Adding the printers from the lounges will allow you to print while other classes are testing. Periodically one of the printers may jam or have some other problem. It is good to have at least one or more backup printers. You can print to any of the student printers on the third or fourth floors or the medical student printer in the Health Center Library.
- From the Start menu, select Printer (lower-right).
- When the window pops up, click Add a printer (on toolbar near the top).
- When the next window pops up, click Add a local printer.
- Click the radio button to the left of Create a new port.
- Click the drop down menu next to Type of port and, select LPR Port.
- Click Next.
- For Name or address of server providing lpd type:
cerebellum.case.edu
- For Name of printer or print queue on that server type:
XXX-Duplex ß where XXX is the society room of the printer you want. The possible choices are:
- Wearn-Duplex, Wearn-BKP, Blackwell-Duplex, Blackwell-BKP, Satcher-Duplex, Satcher-BKP, Robbins-Duplex, Robbins-BKP (the “BKP” printers are the older, smaller Dells that you have in your rooms to use as a backup in case your duplex printers fail).
- Then there are the lounges: Redlounge, Bluelounge, Caugheylounge
- And the Health Center Library, or “HCL”
- NOTE: Each printer on this list may not be ready by the time you have your orientation. The duplex printers, however, will be ready by 7/7/8
- Click OK.
- Click Have Disk.
- Click Browse.
- Direct the window to this path: C:\dell\Printer Drivers
- If you are setting up a duplex printer, select the folder Duplex Printer.
- Click on Open, then OK.
- From the two driver choices presented, select Dell Laser Printer 5310n PS3 and click Next.
- If prompted to keep the selected printer, click Next.
- When you are asked to Name Your Printer, give it a meaningful name that you will recognize it by (this name is what it will look like in your list of available printers). If you are in Wearn, typing in “Wearn Duplex Printer” would work nicely.
- Click Next.
- Make sure Do not share this printer is selected, and press Next.
- There is no need to print a test page now, so click Next.
- Then click Finish, and you have set up a printer!
BootCamp: Internet Explorer
You must be familiar with the recommended web browser that you will use to access the eCurriculum and many other School of Medicine web-base resources including your exams. Not all web browsers are the same and many of the school’s applications have been customized to utilize the advanced features of IE. We do however; recommend that you use Firefox for casual browsing.
NOTE: Please do not install any Beta software, especially Internet Explorer 8, on your notebooks. There is a reason that they are still in beta. They can crash and burn your system. Please ask our Technicians before installing new software and ask for suggestions.
BootCamp: Secure Browser Plug-in for Internet Explorer
You will take many National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) exams on your laptops. All of those exams will be taken using Internet Explorer. All of the exams are secure, meaning that students cannot run other programs while taking an exam or copy questions/answers. In order to provide a secure exam environment on student personally owned computers, the exam will not run without the Secure Browser Plug-in installed within Internet Explorer.
The Secure Browser Plug-in has already been installed on your laptop. However, if you would like to test it, open Internet Explorer and in the Favorites, inside the CaseMED folder, click on NBME Plugin Tester. It links you here:
https://external1.nbme.org/start/app/MSSWC
BootCamp: Spark Instant Messenger
Spark has been pre-installed on your laptops for your Instant Messaging pleasure. You can find your buddies by entering their Case Network ID…….
Spark will also support (connect to) AOL, MSN, ICQ and others. Since many Instant Messenger clients are known to be a bit bloated, using Spark can be a resource saver because it is very lean and minimal. Spark is configured not to run automatically when you log in, so that it does not annoy you when you don’t want it.
BootCamp: Symantec Endpoint Protection
All student computers running Windows (including Macintosh computers running Windows via Bootcamp, Parallels or VMware) must have Symantec Endpoint Protection installed from the Software Center, which includes automatic updates via Case’s site license.
Symantec Endpoint Protection has been set up to run a full scan of your computer every week. Please do not disable this setting.
If you get an e-mail attachment that looks suspicious, or you want to scan just a single file or a folder, do the following:
- Right-click on the file/folder and select Scan for Viruses...
- Symantec will scan the file/folder and if the file/folder is clean, the Symantec window will say Completed.
- If the window shows an infected file, delete the file.
- If you have a problem, bring your computer to us in E-318.
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