ST-GuestNet (STGN) is the easiest way you, as a guest at Elettra, can connect to the Internet and partially to the Intranet without having to request for a permanent IP number for your computer.
Say you are a day-visitor, hosted by an Elettra employee, or a ST consultant, or a user of a Beamline, or a lecturer, or a part-time collaborator. In general, here we consider people who will stay at Elettra for a limited time (one day, one week, one month) and will seldom use our data network.
We try keeping our Local Area Network as much secure as we can. According to this rule, connecting and using a computer is not a straightforward process. We need to know who you are, the details of the computer (MAC, or physical, address), give you an IP number, enabling a network socket, etcetera etcetera.
By using STGN, you'll be able to skip all this burden. Provided somebody can 'guarantee' for you, by giving you a time-limited username/password pair.
ST-GuestNet access is not only provided by a wireless network, but, on request, also by a wired connection.
ST-GuestNet has a restricted access to Internet. Essentially you can navigate by browser, upload (not download) files by ftp and connect to your Institute by SSH. On our LAN you can use ST printers by sincro-print server (see link).
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For any further information contact the Information Technology department.