Engineering Accounts

You must have an Engineering Account to use any public-access computers.

This account (username and password) is needed to log in to any of the machines in the College's computer labs and lab classrooms, atrium computers, or to use the College's remote access dial-up phone lines to access your network directory.

An account can be obtained from Communication and Multimedia Services (CMS).

When you come to CMS to request an ENG Account, you will need the following:

  • Your valid University ID
  • Account Verification Form (filled out and signed) (for students).  This form is available at the CMS Customer Response Center (A332).

Account responsibilities

  • Internet courtesy or 'Netiquette'
  • Your actions reflect on the entire college
  • Appropriate email use
  • Appropriate use of personal web space
  • Respect others privacy
  • System abuse
  • Infractions result in locked account.

Password Changes

  • Changing your system password
    • Log into dingo Use the ‘passwd’ command
    • You will be prompted to log into another system
    • Follow the prompts
    • Change effective within ten minutes

Data Ownership

  • Data owner bears ultimate responsibility for data
  • Don't depend on someone else to protect your data
  • System backups one week minimum out of date
    • All lab stations have a removable storage or ‘ZIP’ drive
    • Low cost, high density, portable data storage solution
    • Located under ‘My Computer’ on Windows desktop
    • Never depend on a single copy of important data

Setting up Email

Inside your email client (Outlook, Eudora) set your configurations as follows.

Checking mail: mail.eng.fsu.edu
Sending mail: mail.eng.fsu.edu

See our email help page for more information.

For information on sending large attachments through the mailing list system, Click here

Monitoring Quotas

Disk Quotas

Faculty and Staff will have 1GB of storage and Students have a disk quota of 400MB of storage on our primary file server system. This storage -- the UNIX "home directory" or Windows "My Documents" -- is for general use.

Email Quotas

Seperate Email quotas are not enforced, as the email folder, called Maildir, resides in the user's home directory.