MSU Computer Services, Dial-up and mail.msu.edu System

MSU Computer Services

For additional information, please contact the MSU ACNS Helpdesk:

ACNS Helpdesk: 432-6200 Secure online request form 120 Computer Center (just east of the Administration Bldg.) mail.msu.edu E-mail System Help: Online documentation with links to further sources of help MSU Academic Computing and Network Services Home Page MSU Academic Computing and Network Services Help Page MSU Campus Network Info

MichNET Dial-up and "guest" access

The official documentation on accessing the dialup system is here, with further information on setting up your system here. For the time being, the basics are as follows (most modern operating systems automate this, so you're probably better off following ACNS's documentation).

To get to the MichNET dial-up, use 999-2678 (8 bits, 1 stop bit, no parity) in the Lansing area.

To initiate an interactive login to a particular system, the initial prompt is "Host:". The following example gives the responses for "guest" access:

Host: msu.edu	(This is MSU's MichNET domain.)
Login: guest@msu.edu Password: guest	(This authenticates you in the MichNET domain.)
Then, either
Host: mail.pa.msu.edu	(This will connect you to the main Physics-Astronomy server)
or Host: (any complete Internet address at MSU where you have been given an account.)

To initiate a PPP network session, follow whatever instructions are given with your operating system, using the same username and password for logging into the MichNET server as you would use for a single-system interactive login.

If you have an MSU Net ID and password, they should be used for authentication instead of the "guest" access ("guest" access is subject to restrictions imposed by the MSU Computer Laboratory).
In the next login example, "smithj" is the MSU Net ID and "try14me9" is the password (a made up example: don't use it).

Login: smithj@msu.edu Password: try14me9

(This authenticates you in the MichNET domain.)

Recent dial-up system statistics can be found here.

Note that out-state MichNET dialup was discontinued during Summer 2007, as explained in this ACNS document.

Obtaining Your MSU Net ID And Password: