You should be able to access all CS dept web resources using either Firefox or Google Chrome. We strongly suggest you download and install Mozilla Firefox. You can download the latest version of Google Chrome from here.

Email
As a CS student you will be given an email address on odin. You can access mail at this address by logging into odin and using alpine. The CS department does NOT support IMAP or POP3. This means you cannot use a mail client such as Thunderbird or Outlook.

Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
SFTP or SCP to and from user accounts on a CS machine such as odin or sleipnir is supported by any SFTP client (FileZilla, WinSCP, windows SFTP, etc.) as long as the client machine has a legitimate Internet IP address and hostname. If this is not the case, SFTP is disallowed. FTP is not enabled on any CS machine.

Additional Software
You will also need a terminal emulation sofware package that runs over the Internet (called ssh) to access the CS dept UNIX machines. The ssh application recommended for PCs is PuTTY. Many CS faculty format files as PDF and require Adobe Acrobat or another PDF reader to read them. For Windows we recommend Sumatra ODF or LibreOffice.

Downloading and Configuring SSH
Adobe Acrobat Reader