Connecting to Computers

There are 2 ways to connect to the departmental computers

• If you are a McGill Student/Employee/Affliate is to use the McGill VPN. Please be advised that you need to be registered to two factor Authentication 2FA for McGill VPN. While on VPN, AOS computers see you as being on campus. Once on VPN, you can ssh directly to your machine with its full hostname (xxxxxxxx.meteo.mcgill.ca)

OR

• An alternative method is by using the 2 Jump Hosts directly accessible to you from outside the department.

These Jump Hosts are called

1. meteo.mcgill.ca, also known as zephyr,

2. jump.meteo.mcgill.ca

Once logged into zephyr, or jump, you may connect to any other computer in the department as if you were inside.

Connecting from Windows, Linux or OS X

Without graphics

Once you have connected to the gateway, OR are on VPN, you can use a ssh terminal to connect to any linux AOS workstation.

ssh USERNAME@zephyr.meteo.mcgill.ca

In Microsoft Windows(10+), you can run ssh through the "cmd" terminal (Start Menu --> Run --> cmd) or through PowerShell. On Linux or a Mac, you have a terminal by default.

With Graphics

You have 2 choices for running Graphical software on AOS machines

1. XForwarding Using X-Forwarding on ssh

2. Using Remote Desktop if on McGill VPN