Welcome to the Earls Court computer facilities.  All the computers within Earls court are networked together as a single local area network (LAN) which is then connected to the Internet. All machines have standard Office, Internet and Mail capability installed and the default printer for every computer is the high speed laser printer in the office. 

Two machines additionally have extra facilities installed to allow them to be them to be used for Administrative purposes. The machine in the centre of the Office has the Main Mail system installed. It also has a read/write CD-ROM for large copies and backups. The first machine in the computer room also has several specialist programs to allow updating of the Website. These facilities should only be used following training and detailed instructions for both are found in the administrative section of this Help.

The facilities available are for use at any time by ECCP staff, students on the counselling course and clients of the ECCP facilities (Coffee Bar) under supervision.

We do not wish to impose forced constraints on people, so would ask you to always conform to the following rules when using the computers.

   Rules of the Network (Code of Practice)

•  Internet use is currently taken 'on trust'. Access to unacceptable sites including those of a violent, sexual or satanic nature will result in prohibitive steps being taken.

• When clients are allowed to use the computer facilities, they should be accompanied by a member of the ECCP team.

•  Whenever you have finished with the computer, please logoff. This ensures that if the next user of his computer is a client, they have to logon to the restricted user. If no-one else is going to use the machine, then please close it down.

• The machines have been configured to always require a Logon. ECCP members should logon as user 'Admin', but clients should Logon as user 'Client'. This restricted user prevents them from modifying the system in any way, or seeing the ECCP data on the hard disk.

•   Do not install any new software on any machine without first clearing it with Samy or Mike. This is to ensure compatibility with the current software, and to ensure we do not have unlicensed software on our system. This is especially important in the case of 'free' software from the Web. All 'free' software is paid for somehow, usually by advertising, but some software can be even more insidious, creating many unauthorised downloads that need an operating system re-install to remove.

•   Do not create Folder shares on any of the computers. These will override user security if not created correctly and consequently open up the ability for non-administrative users to see restricted files. ECCP staff do not need any additionally shares. Administrative shares are available, and are described in the relevant section of this Help.

•   There is a chart of costs for personal printing. This is affixed to the printer in the main office.

•   Do not Use the main Administration machine in the office for sending personal mail.

•   Never allow access to or from the web when requested by a firewall prompt, unless you have cleared what the access request is for.