A. In order to create accounts for members of your department, you must first request webmaster rights from the IRC (syshelp@usna.edu). Please note that you must be a member of the department for whose members you intend to set up accounts. Since IT reps are members of ITSD, they cannot set up accounts for members of the departments they support.

Once this has been set up, here is the procedure:

Creating Accounts

Open a browser and go to http://spanner/cgi-devel/dirtools/webmasters/adduser2server.cgi. Use your Novell user ID and password to access this page.

The page displays a list of the user IDs of users in the group for which you are webmaster.

• In the "UserID to Add" box, enter the user ID of the user for whom you wish to set up an account.
• Check the box "Webster."
• Click the "Add to Server" button.

If you wish to create sites for more than one department member, repeat the above procedure.

Note: This script is under development. If you encounter problems using it or have suggestions for improvement, please send email to the IRC at the address above.

Populating the Accounts

Once the account is created, the user can begin creating web pages.  The new web pages will be uploaded to www.usna.edu.  Connect to www.usna.edu using your Novell account login and password.

The files will be put in the directory:

/nfsusers/Users/<department>/<name>/

for example:

/nfsusers/Users/history/jpjones/

You may populate the account using WinSCP or use the publish feature found in Netscape Composer, Microsoft FrontPage, or Macromedia Dreamweaver.

Accessing the Accounts as Web Pages

The base URL for the sites that you create on www.usna.edu using this procedure will be:

http://www.usna.edu/Users/history/jpjones/

Note: Notice that /nfsusers/Users changes to just /Users in the URL for your web content.