Windows Application Servers

The Windows Application Servers are named wapps2007 and wapps2003. These are two Windows 2003 Terminal Servers that offer a complete Windows environment. The only difference between these Windows application servers is that wapps2007 runs Office 2007 and wapps2003 runs Office 2003. To use these servers, you will need to run an Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client. These are available for free, and are built in to many operating systems.

WARNING!

Please save all of your data to the H drive (which is your CS home directory) - it is made available automatically when you log on.

Note - your login and password are the same as at CSLab. If your CSLab password is longer than eight characters, please use only the first eight characters.

In general, please note that these servers are still new and there still may be some outstanding issues. We welcome your comments and feedback, through your Point of Contact (POC).

CONNECTING ON WINDOWS VISTA
Open Remote Desktop Connection by clicking the Start button > All Programs > Accessories, and then clicking Remote Desktop Connection.
Type wapps2003.cs.toronto.edu or wapps2007.cs.toronto.edu. When prompted, type in your CSLab username and password.
CONNECTING ON WINDOWS XP
Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Communications > Remote Desktop Connection.
Type wapps2003.cs.toronto.edu or wapps2003.cs.toronto.edu. When prompted, enter your CSLab username and password.
CONNECTING ON OLDER VERSIONS OF WINDOWS
Older versions of Windows do not have an RDP client installed by default. You can download one for free from Microsoft for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, and 2000 at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools/rdclientdl.mspx. Alternatively, you can use rdesktop under Cygwin.
CONNECTING ON OSX
Mac OSX does not have an RDP client by default. You will need to download a client (for example, http://cord.sourceforge.net/), or Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection for Mac, available at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=remotedesktopclient. Alternativly, you can use darwin ports or fink to get an rdesktop client and run it as you would on UNIX/Linux.
CONNECTING FROM UNIX/LINUX SYSTEMS
Use the open-source client http://www.rdesktop.org. It is already installed on CSLab servers

If rdesktop is installed on the machine you are using, type
```
 rdesktop -g 80% wapps2003.cs.toronto.edu
```
or
```
 rdesktop -g 80% wapps2007.cs.toronto.edu 
```
This starts up a window that is 80% of your screen size, with the default colour depth (usually 16 bits). If you want, you can specify a specific size and colour depth, e.g. 1024x768 in 24-bit colour, by typing:
```
 rdesktop -g 1024x768 -a24 wapps2007.cs.toronto.edu
```
If rdesktop is not installed on the machine you are using (i.e. when you type "rdesktop", the machine reports "rdesktop: Command not found."), then you can still connect to wapps2003 or wapps2007 through one of the department's application servers. For example, if your login is "myusername", and you want to connect to wapps2003 through the application server "apps0.cs.toronto.edu", you can type:
```
 ssh -X myusername@apps0.cs.toronto.edu rdesktop -g 80% wapps2003 
```
SAVING YOUR DATA
When you logon for the first time to the Windows application server a profile directory, in your home directory (H: drive) is created, and automatically mounted. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO SAVE ALL DATA TO YOUR CS HOME DIRECTORY (H: drive). Any other writeable directories on the application server are not backed up, and should not be used. Data stored there may have to be deleted without notice.
INSTALLING PROGRAMS
You or your POC can install programs on wapps2007 and wapps2003 as long as the programs do not require Administrator privileges to install (e.g. Putty). If a desired package requires Administrator privileges, contact your POC and have them put in a request that it be added to Core software. Unfortunately, due to the need to keep the software on core servers manageable, such requests may need to be reviewed by the departmental computing committee (DCC).