[LON-CAPA-users] missing /res/msu/ library

[Stuart Raeburn]

Jim,

For now, if a session for a user from a different domain needs to be  
hosted on one of the msu domain servers, the user should point a  
browser at:

https://loncapa.msu.edu/adm/login

(i.e., the MSU load-balancer node).


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium


Quoting "Mueller, James A." <mueller at pitt.edu>:

> Is there a preference for which msu server to point to until this   
> gets fixed.  Some of my students are not able to access problems   
> that are in the msu domain.
>
> -Jim
>
> On Jan 3, 2017, at 4:56 PM, Stuart Raeburn   
> <raeburn at msu.edu<mailto:raeburn at msu.edu>> wrote:
>
> Hector,
>
> MSU IT Services recently made a change to security settings at the   
> MSU network border which prevents servers outside MSU connecting to   
> LON-CAPA servers in the msu domain via the dedicated port used by   
> LON-CAPA.
>
> At present, inbound "internal" LON-CAPA connections to the MSU   
> library server (which houses resources in the msu domain) are   
> blocked, and hence directory listings for /res/msu are unavailable   
> in user sessions hosted on servers in other domains.
>
> You can, however, still log-in to one of the MSU LON-CAPA servers   
> and have your user session hosted there. If you do that you'll be   
> able to browse /res/msu/physicslib.
>
> I submitted a request about a week ago to MSU IT Services to   
> re-enable access to the LON-CAPA port on servers in the msu and   
> msudemo domains from other domains, but because of the holiday   
> period the status of that request (#17221) remains open.
>
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
>
>
> Quoting Hector Mendez   
> <hector.mendez4 at upr.edu<mailto:hector.mendez4 at upr.edu>>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been using the msu capa library in my set since a long time,
>
> however I don't see it anymore. Do I need an special permission this time?
>
> Can someone let me know who to contact about this ?
>
> /res/msu/physicslib/
> Directory does not exist.
>
> thank you very much,
>
> Hector
>
>
> --
> Dr. Hector Mendez
> Prof. of Physics,
> Physics Department,
> University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
> Phone: 787-832-4040   X 3799
>
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