SSH

From Waisman Brain Imaging Wiki

SSH is a way of connecting from one computer to another so that your can type in commands on the remote computer and see the results. This is a useful way of running big jobs on the lab servers while you are at home, or when you're at one lab and want to process some data at the other without travelling between the two.

SSH stands for Secure SHell. It is similar to Telnet and the UNIX 'rlogin' command. However, it is better, since it encrypts all of the information sent between the two computers (so that your password and other sensitive data can't be easily intercepted by hackers). SSH also allows you to tunnel other communications within the SSH data stream (for example, it lets you send X Windows information via SSH instead of needing a separate connection for it).

If you're using Windows, you can use the SecureCRT program to connect to the lab servers via SSH. If you're using a Mac or a UNIX computer, you can use the 'ssh' command from the command line.

For example, to connect from LAN104 to LAN106, you'd type the following (the "-X" flag says to include X Windows data inside the SSH stream):

ssh -X lan106