[committee] [wheel] internet access for astronomy conference

Samuel Cochran sj26 at sj26.com
Tue May 13 13:51:12 WST 2008


2008/5/13 Andrew Williams <andrew at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>:
>  -how big UCC's non-PARNET link is - as I understand it, we can't use PARNET
> without giving each attendee a unique username/password. Can it support a
> couple of hundred users?

To do that over SNAP to UCC you'll need some user accounts too, we rely on PPTP.

There is an infrastructure put in place by ITS Client Services
(specifically Gaye Harvey) for rapidly provisioning many (100s of)
conference accounts, although it's not free.

Sam.

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