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The Macintosh OS X operating system includes ssh, so getting connected to WMC systems is relatively easy. If you don’t need X11 (for graphical applications running the server with the display on your Mac), these steps will get you logged in:

Double click the hard drive icon on the desktop.

Click Applications.

Navigate to the Utilities subfolder.

Double click the Terminal icon.
[Note: If you will be using the Terminal application often, you may want to first drag the Terminal application icon to the dock.]

Type ssh -l username beech.med.cornell.edu at your Macintosh’s UNIX prompt.

If you do need X11 support, you will need to install X11 client software on your Macintosh. X11 support is part of the Macintosh operating system in the Panther (10.3) version, but it is an optional part of the installation procedure. For the Jaguar (10.2) release, you can install a beta version of the X11 software (although it is beta software, we have found it to be reasonably reliable). Once you have the X11 software installed, follow these steps to log in:

Double click the hard drive icon on the desktop.

Click Applications.

Double click the X11 icon.
[Note: If you will be using the X11 application often, you may want to first drag the X11 application icon to the dock.]

Type ssh –Xl username beech.med.cornell.edu at your Macintosh’s UNIX prompt. The –X option is needed to ask ssh to establish X11 ‘tunneling’ between your computer and the server.

You may receive a message stating that the authenticity of the host cannot be established. This is normal if this is the first time you are connecting to beech from this computer. Answer yes to continue the connection process. You should not receive this message for subsequent connections to the same server (from the same MacOS account).

Type xclock at the terminal prompt.

A separate window with a clock should appear on your screen. This confirms that X Windows communications between the Mac and the server is working. Close the clock window.

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