Linux and macOS at THI

Community notes for Linux and macOS at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt: printing, Wi-Fi, VPN, network shares.

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Why

Campus systems are documented for Windows. Most of it works on Linux and macOS too, but the details (a driver path, a certificate authority, a hostname) are not written down anywhere the next person can find them. This site writes them down.

Pages state when a human last checked them, and admit when nobody has.

Contributing

Corrections are the most valuable contribution, and you do not need to clone anything.

I want to…	Do this
Report something wrong	The Something wrong here? link at the bottom of any page
Say the steps worked	File a check record
Fix a typo or a sentence	Edit this page on GitHub at the bottom of the page
Write a new page	Read CONTRIBUTING, then npm run new-page

Contributions are released into the public domain. Pseudonymous contributions are fine.

Running it locally

npm install
npm run dev       # http://localhost:5173
npm run build     # production build; fails on dead links
npm run check     # everything CI checks

Node 22 or newer. For small edits press . on any file in GitHub for a browser editor.

How it is organised

content/          the pages; content/en is the source, content/de is translated
facts/            hostnames, queue names, certificates: one file per service
scripts/          runnable setup and verification scripts, embedded into pages
design/           requirements and architecture decisions

Two rules explain most of the structure:

A configuration value is written once. It lives in facts/ and pages reference it as ${facts.printing.queue}. CI fails if a page hardcodes one, because the next rename would miss it.

Scripts are real files, not code blocks. Pages embed them from scripts/, so a documented command and the runnable one cannot drift apart.

Licence

CC0 1.0, public domain. Copy it, fork it, paste it into official documentation, no attribution required.