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Log in to the Bianca remote desktop environment

The Bianca remote desktop environment

The Bianca remote desktop environment

Learning outcomes

  • Use the UPPMAX documentation
  • Observe the most common problems when accessing Bianca
  • Log in into Bianca's remote desktop environment using a website
Notes for teachers

Teaching goals:

  • The learners have used the UPPMAX documentation
  • The learners have observed the most common problems when accessing Bianca
  • The learners have logged in into Bianca's remote desktop environment using a website

Schedule:

gantt
  title Lesson plan Introduction and Logging in
  dateFormat X
  axisFormat %s
  section Introduction
  Prior knowledge: prior_1, 0, 5s
  Theory : theory_1, after prior_1, 5s
  section Logging In
  Prior knowledge: prior_2, after theory_1, 5s
  Theory: theory, after prior_2, 5s
  Exercises: crit, exercise, after theory, 30s
  Feedback: feedback, after exercise, 10s

Prior:

  • What is a desktop environment?

Feedback:

  • Your colleague visits https://bianca.uppmax.uu.se/ and nothing appears in his/her browser. What can be wrong?
  • What is a desktop environment?

Why login to a remote desktop environment?

There are multiple ways to log in to Bianca, each having its own features. These are the two we teach in this course:

Way Location Setup Environment User experience Same environment everywhere? Other
Using the remote desktop website Within SUNET None Desktop Clunky No, but similar Limited amount of licenses
Using the console environment Within SUNET SSH client Console Powerful Identical .

First, we focus on the environment that most of us are familiar with: a (remote) desktop environment. However, it is the other/console environment that (almost) always work.

Exercises

Prefer a video?

This 17 minutes long YouTube video shows how to do these exercises, so you can check your answers.

A goal of these exercises is to practice to use the UPPMAX documentation. Such active learning is more effective than watching a video passively. Please try to do the exercises first!

Specialized videos:

Exercise 1: Find the documentation

Search the UPPMAX documentation at https://docs.uppmax.uu.se/ for how to log in to the Bianca remote desktop environment website.

Answer

In the search box, type 'Bianca log in remote desktop website' or something similar. This will take you to https://docs.uppmax.uu.se/getting_started/login_bianca_remote_desktop_website/

Exercise 2: A user sees nothing

The Bianca website does nothing

A colleague visiting https://bianca.uppmax.uu.se/ and sees nothing...

Your colleague visits https://bianca.uppmax.uu.se/ and sees nothing appear on the website (see also image above). What is likely the problem?

Answer

He/she is not inside of SUNET.

Show him/her the section above on how to get into SUNET.

Exercise 3: Log in to the Bianca remote desktop

Log in to the Bianca remote desktop.

Answer

It is in the UPPMAX documentation page 'Log in to the Bianca remote desktop environment website'.

You can watch the YouTube video 'Log in to the Bianca remote desktop environment website'.

Exercise 4: start a terminal in the Bianca remote desktop environment

Start a terminal in the Bianca remote desktop environment.

Answer

Click on the terminal icon at the bottom of the screen.

The terminal icon at the bottom of the screen

The terminal icon at the bottom of the screen