All about using the Mac in NTU, and hopefully an iPhone in the near future. General stuff for the general population as well as for the Computer Science nerds.

Secured Wireless Access

Quick tip for all, non Mac users included.

Log onto the campus secure wireless network. Sure it is more a hassle to setup initially, but the ability to just associate with the access point and not having to go through the captive portal to access the internet is something that is of a greater convinence.

Encryption of your wireless signals also prevents eveasdropping through wireless sniffers.

Also accordingly, less people use the secure APs so the throughput’s much better.

Mac configuration here.

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For those who want the convinence of contact searching using NTU’s LDAP servers as well as Public Folders access, you have to either be on Campus logged into the Campus Network or get in through VPN. VPN configuration can be found on the CITS site. Other details to be filled in can be found in your Entourage Accounts Panel.

For those who want the convinence of contact searching using NTU’s LDAP servers as well as Public Folders access, you have to either be on Campus logged into the Campus Network or get in through VPN.

VPN configuration can be found on the CITS site. Other details to be filled in can be found in your Entourage Accounts Panel.


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Configuring Mac OS X by NTU CITS
Updated for Leopard for VPN
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Email

Alright. NTU provides a Microsoft Exchange Server for emails and everything else Outlook-ish. The good news is that you don’t have to use the really crappy looking and perhaps limited webmail. You can get it using apps on your Mac.

Avaliable for Exchange consumption would be Apple’s default Mail.app as well as Entourage. For the sake of functionality and features, Entourage would be the choice for now even though Mail.app looks really really nice and all.

So to configure Entourage for NTU’s mail environment, start up Entourage. This is of course assuming you are using Entourage:mac 2008

  1. Select Tools > Accounts from the menubar.
  2. Select New > Exchange from.
  3. Select to configure the account manually.
  4. Enter the following information to whatever you see fit,
    • Account Name
    • Name (to be used in to: fields)
    • E-mail Address (to be used in to: fields)
  5. Authentication information should be your network login that you’ve selected when you did you admission information, password to the one you’ve set as well as the domain being just “student”.
  6. Your Exchange server should be “webmail.ntu.edu.sg”.
  7. Set it to require SSL connections.
  8. Let it sync up with NTU’s Exchange Servers and you’re done!

This is the configuration to get you access to your email outside NTU’s campus network.

For the illiterate,

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So yeah, I start school in August.

I regret not doing this in NP, so here it is for high level education. All about surviving school using a Mac.

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