Please note that your password is transmitted in the clear, and is thus vulnerable to packet sniffing. Unless you truely need the interactive access, it is best to just use the program scp to copy files from your home directory on NPL to other systems. The machine is located in 428 LLP, just to the left of the door. Previously, NPL relied on computer systems from Hewlett Packard running HP-UX . There are no longer any mission critical services running on the HP-UX machines.
Access is granted in the same way as for the linux machines .
They are old machines and are officially unsupported. There are no useful services running on these machines. The only reason they are still connected to the network is a small amount of disk space that has not been properly archived yet. Please do not use them. Each NT workstation in the department is part of the NPL domain, although NT users are part of a larger domain, which covers the entire physics department.