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Getting started with Netsoc

Welcome to Netsoc, to get a gentle introduction to Netsoc, we recommend that you:

• Set up our news page with your Myzone RSS
• Connect to our server in text-mode using SSH
• From there, connect to Chat and say hi to whoever is there
• Take a look at setting up your website
• Look at the Tutorials to see if anything catches your eye -- o2sms, hey and Games are very popular
• Wait patiently until we email you our weekly news newsletter
• Get involved -- if you have any ideas for things we could do, let us know. Tell us in Chat or email us

Welcome to the Netsoc Support Wiki

This site currently contains 97 interconnected articles to help you get the most our of your Netsoc membership. If you can't find what you're looking for you should Contact Support.

If you would like to be able to contribute to this site, see WikiAccount. To play with the wiki please use the Sandbox. There's also a Todo list.

Services We Provide

• IRC - easily accessed via Chat
• Newsgroups - See the tutorials on Newsgroups Viewing and Newsgroups Posting
• Webspace - viewable by anyone in the world, see Setting Up Webspace
• Filestorage - 1GB available with Samba from anywhere in college and with WinSCP or sshfs from home
• SSH - use your account from home and college, on Windows use PuTTy
• Email - including IMAPS, mail sorting, spam and virus filtering

For Users

• Tutorials
  • Chat
  • o2sms
  • hey
  • Newsgroups
  • .htaccess
  • Games
  • netris
  • Screen
  • Setting Up Webspace
  • Permissions (basic)
  • Permissions (special)
  • CVS Basics
  • Jabber
• Script Listing
• User Scripts by Author
• Server Etiquette

Techy Stuff

• Technical Information
• Hardware
• Wiki Administration

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