CS Help
Help booklet for common questions regarding CS resources, user access, etc.
Welcome
This is the on-line guidebook for computing resources for general use within the School of Comput...
Accounts & Sign-in
Articles related to UW accounts and access
Computer Science Access
For all your course work please log in to the server delta.cs.uwindsor.ca and not into cs.uwinds...
Passwords
CS Members Definition A UWinID and password is required to use the resources within the School....
VPN
The University of Windsor uses a firewall. Many protocols or ports are blocked by the firewall, s...
MFA
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) provides additional security for your UWin Account. MFA is req...
Courses
COMP1400
Raptor is used by COMP1400. It is available on all the machines in computer science labs. Also c...
COMP 3150
COMP 3670/4670/8677
COMP 2057 Prof. David Mayo
Before connecting to the server, please ensure that you have access to Computer Science resources...
COMP 3400
To run nvhpc on Delta export PATH=/opt/nvidia/hpc_sdk/Linux_x86_64/25.11/compilers/bin:$PATHexp...
CS Servers
The primary compute server is delta.cs.uwindsor.ca The primary webserver is myweb.cs.uwindsor....
Software Available on Delta
Based on the image below you can see the software available on delta.
How to use myweb
STEP 1 go to https://myweb.cs.uwindsor.ca/ and select the blue box option STEP 2 Login with...
PhpMyAdmin
STEP 1 go to https://myweb.cs.uwindsor.ca/ and select the blue box option STEP 2 Login with...
Delta.cs.uwindsor.ca
Delta is the School of Computer Science's main computing server. You can reach Delta using any ...
Software for Remote Access
Applications and programs commonly used to access the main computing server used by Computer Scie...
Technical Resources Available
The School of Computer Science operates a modern, full-service data-center and computing facility...
Wireless
CS and UW wireless service
MyWeb Tutorials
MyWeb Tutorials: Login to MyWeb
DirectAdmin is a web-based hosting control panel that allows you to manage your website files, da...
MyWeb Tutorials: File Manager & HTML page
In this tutorial, we will create a simple HTML page and navigate through the website's files. Ac...
MyWeb Tutorials: Database Creation
This article provides step-by-step instructions for creating a database in MyWeb (DirectAdmin) ...
MyWeb Tutorials: Create PHP/DB application
This tutorial shows how to: Create a PHP file Connect to a database Display table contents ...
MyWeb Tutorials: Git (Version Control)
Recommended Workflow (Read First) If you are planning to use GIT, then you need to consider our ...
MyWeb Tutorials: Connect to DB remotely
In addition to accessing your database through phpMyAdmin on MyWeb, you may also connect to your ...
How To
MyWeb
Troubleshooting IP blacklisting When you try to connect to your myweb.cs.uwindsor.ca management...
NoMachine
The School of Computer Science runs NoMachine Terminal Server. The client connects to a server n...
Notepad++
Download Download for Windows The latest version will be at the top of the list. ...
SQL*plus ( to Oracle)
How to use from delta.cs.uwindsor.ca Troubleshooting Login problems Oracle database user a...
Oracle Using Java and Python from Delta
Connecting to Oracle server from Delta using jdbc JDBC Connection string In the con...
WSL
Windows Subsystem for Linux The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was introduced by Microsoft to...
JetBrains
Free educational license for all the JetBrains IDEs for Students and Faculty. It is a JetBrains ...
Gitlab
We have a community edition (Gitlab CE) instance running at https://gitlab.cs.uwindsor.ca What i...
VS Code
Installed on delta.cs.uwindsor.ca. It will work from home using NoMachine or from any labs. you c...
How to Set Dynamic (DHCP) IP Address - Windows 10/11
1. Access the Control Panel Windows 11: In the Windows search bar, type in “ncpa.cpl” and then...
How to Set Dynamic (DHCP) IP Address - Mac OS
1. Open System Preferences Click the Apple icon, from the Apple drop-down list, select System Pr...
Connecting to the ‘delta.cs.uwindsor.ca’ Server via SSH through Visual Studio Code
This article was contributed by Avinash Karhana (karhanaa@uwindsor.ca). Thank you! Prerequis...
Check and clean up large files in your home directory
Over time, your home directory may grow in size. We recommend regularly checking your disk usage ...
Graduate Printer
Note: Printing is only available when connected to CSWIFI or when using the computers located i...
PostgreSQL
Note: Access to PostgreSQL is restricted to students with projects, and it can be accessed via sp...
AV 300 Ouellette
We have AV in the classroom, two labs, and a Seminar area. We have multiple TVs on the cart. Se...