With all of the following methods, your username and password are your UW NetID username and password, the ones you would use when logging in to MyUW.

Please note that you need to use the Husky OnNet VPN service if you are trying to connect remotely to a lab machine outside of campus. (e.g. from your home or work computer.)

More information about Husky OnNet VPN can be found here:
https://itconnect.uw.edu/connect/uw-networks/about-husky-onnet/

For questions or concerns, please contact uwbit@uw.edu.

Connecting from Windows machines

At first, please install Husky Onnet VPN on your machine, and then launch the Husky OnNet VPN to connect to the UW network. Once connection to the UW network is established, you can download an SSH client program: either PuTTY SSH, MobaXterm or regular CMD terminal is fine.

Remote lab machines:

There are 22 remote machines available for students and faculty to use: csslab1.uwb.edu all the way to csslab22.uwb.edu. The NFS file space is limited to 5 GB/user.

On your Windows system with the latest patch, go to the command line or your favorite SSH Client program (PuTTY, MobaXterm) and type the name of the remote machine you would like to connect. For example, connecting to csslab15.uwb.edu:

$ ssh your_UWnetID@csslab15.uwb.edu

Use your own UW NetID, not the word "netid", in the ssh command. The command will connect you to one of the machines. If there is a specific machine you want to connect to (if you saved a file in /tmp instead of your home directory, for example), you can do that by specifying that particular machine in the command.

To end the ssh connection: Type exit or logout.

Connecting from Mac / Linux machines

At first, please install Husky Onnet VPN on your machine, and then launch the Husky OnNet VPN application to connect to the UW network. Once the connection to UW’s network is established, you can use the Terminal application on a Mac (found in Applications → Utilities) to get a command line. Most Linux distributions also have a Terminal application. From the command line, you can connect to the remote Linux lab using the following command:

Remote lab machines:

On the Mac/Linux Terminal type the name of the remote machine you would like to connect. There are 22 machines available for students and faculty to use: csslab1.uwb.edu all the way to csslab22.uwb.edu. For example, connecting to machine csslab17.uwb.edu:

$ ssh your_UWnetID@csslab17.uwb.edu

Use your own UW NetID, not the word "netid", in the ssh command. The command will connect you to one of the machines. If there is a specific machine you want to connect to (if you saved a file in /tmp instead of your home directory, for example), you can do that by specifying that particular machine in the command.

To end the ssh connection: Type exit or logout.

Faculty research machines:

There are 4 machines dedicated for faculty to use: csslabr1.uwb.edu through csslabr4.uwb.edu. These systems are turned on by request in order to save resources. The NFS file space is limited to 5 GB/user. There is extra space for faculty members: cd /faculty/faculty

Faculty can access these machines similarly as accessing other lab machines. For example, connecting to csslabr3.uwb.edu:

$ ssh your_UWnetID@csslabr3.uwb.edu

Use your own UW NetID, not the word "netid", in the ssh command. The command will connect you to one of the machines. If there is a specific machine you want to connect to (if you saved a file in /tmp instead of your home directory, for example), you can do that by specifying that particular machine in the command.

To end the ssh connection: Type exit or logout.

Troubleshooting

Please visit our csslab troubleshooting page for issues related to the remote csslab.
* How to fix – Connection Warnings