Computers 101 @ Caedm

The offical Caedm user guide and be found here. Caedm provides the computers and support for the College of Engineering and Technology. If you want to use a computer in the college, you must have a CAEDM account.

How to Create an account

If you do not have a Caedm account, you can create one by going to the computers outside of room 423 in the Clyde or by going to the URL of https://ssl.et.byu.edu/cms. Follow the steps on this page to create your account.

J Drive

Each user is alloted space on the Caedm network. This is where they can store their school information. It will only be accessible to you and the Caedm administrators. There is a space limitation that changes over time. If your J Drive becomes full, you can burn your information to CD from most of the computers on the Caedm network. In the CM 411 class, you cannot use the J drive for your Timberline Data.

J Drive mapping for Laptops in the lab

To map the J drive on the laps in snlb 219 using a wired connection do the following:

Right click on My Network Places and select MapNetwork drive.
Select the Drive Letter as J:
In the folder field, type \\fs-caedm.et.byu.edu\homes

Out of Space on J Drive

From the start menu select "Show J Drive Usage". Press the Analyze button. Your largest files will be shown at the top of the list. Right click to select files that you would like to delete. You now should have more space on the J drive.

Firefox Profile Errors

The Firefox profile errors stem from 3 sources that I'm aware of. The following steps should be done in sequence. After each step, log out and then relogin to see if the problem has been solved, if not go to the next step.

Your J drive space is at or over your limit (150 meg) capacity. To solve this delete some of the junk off of the J drive.
In the directory J:\.firefox\profiles\user.default there is a file named parentlock.lck. If you are getting a message something like Firefox is already running, delete the parentlock.lck file.
In the directory J:\.firefox\profiles\user.default there are file that are .ini. While these files are needed, they may have become corrupted. If the above steps have not solved the problem, delete the .ini files.

Account Manager - the account managers allows you to control your Caedm account

Printing Balance

It costs money every time you print a page on the Caedm network. The price varies with what printer you are using. This link has the pricing information. To add money to your printing account, you need to add money to your signature card account. You can add money to your signature card account through Route Y.

Email Fowarding

If you chose not to use the Caedm email account, that is fine, but you should forward it to an account that you do use. Otherwise, you may miss important information from the Caedm administrators, that may result in your account being disabled.

Group Accounts

If you work on group projects and would like a common storage area, for your groups data, you can create a groups space on the J drive. To do this, login to the the Caedm account manager and select group manager. Select Create a New Group. Create a name for the group according to the guidlines given. Most likely, you will want the members to be able to read and write to the group, so enter each group members caedm user name separated by commas and no spaces.

Press Create the Group and the group will be created. Wait 15 minutes and then relogin and you should now see the group at J:\Groups\group name.

CAEDM creates and email account when you create your account. If you do not wish to use this account, you should forward this account to the one that you are using. To forward this account, read above on the email forwarding link.

If you want to download your Caedm email at home, here are the instructions. To learn how to setup your email client instead of the web interface for Route Y email at home, click here.

WWW

If you would like to create you own webpage, CAEDM provides you with that abilitity. Anything that you place in the www folder on the J drive, will be visible on the internet. The URL of you account is www.et.byu.edu/~username ie www.et.byu.edu/~kmiller

Transferring files from the J drive to your home computer

You can transfer files from the J drive to you home computer by using FTP. In order to do this, you need and FTP client. There are many clients available. Here is link to download WS-FTP. Download the WS_FTP LE. Install it on your home computer the read the directions found here.

An alternate solution is to type the following address in the address bar: ftp://USERNAME@et.byu.edu , replace USERNAME with your caedm username. Using Internet Explorer you can download and upload files. With Mozilla or Netscape you can only download files. However, beware using Internet Explorer in the Caedm lab be it stores many temporary files that are stored and your J drive and then can cause you to run out of storage space on the J drive.

Transferring files from the U drive to your home computer

The University also provides you with 10 meg of storage space that shows up as the U drive when you are in a University lab or working on a tech room computer. You can also access it by ftp. The address to type is: myudrive.byu.edu , where the USERNAME is your Route Y ID.

Running Caedm Applications at Home

Many of the Caedm applications can be accessed from your home computer. I would recommend that you do this over a high speed line rather than a modem, but you can do it over a modem. To run applications from home you need to access the Caedm application server. The download client generally works better than the web browser client. For more information on accessing the application server click here.

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