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eSmith Portal

(Revised 8/11/2004)

Introduction

The goal of the eSmith Portal is to provide an attractive, easy to use gateway to navigate through the network of both public and private information, services and business functions of the school and the University. It provides a secure infrastructure to present Web-based applications and information to the Smith community. The portal is focused on tools for collaboration, research, and personal productivity.

Availability

The portal is available to all faculty and staff, and to students with Business and Management as their primary field of study.

It is highly recommended you use Internet Explorer on Windows to access the portal.

The portal may be accessed at https://portal.rhsmith.umd.edu. To log in, you must use your University Directory username and password (sometimes also known as your LDAP username). This is the same login you might be using with other campus systems such as Blackboard, the wireless computer network, CorporateTime, and WebCT. You can also optionally use this username and password with ARES and Testudo. If you have never used your University Directory username before, there is help available for first-time users at http://www.smith.umd.edu/portal/portal_login_help.html. Because this is a private system for internal use by Smith faculty, staff, and students, there is no guest access available.

Feedback on this system is encouraged! Please send your questions and comments to  portalhelp@rhsmith.umd.edu.

Updated Features and Benefits

In August, 2004 eSmith underwent a major revision that primarily affected the Windows Applications tool in the portal. The new features include:

• No more Java! -- the client installs as a native application on the client computer, and integrates with the browser similarly to Acrobat Reader
• Better compatibility -- so far, all tested browsers have worked with the tool – Internet Explorer, Mozilla variants, and Netscape variants, on both PC and Macintosh Smaller client -- the client is only 2MB, so it is faster to download and launch (the client is also available on the Smith IT Tools CD for 2004, for those who don't wish to download the client) Quicker page display -- the client is only is loaded when you actually launch an application, so the pages can draw without loading all of the helper code Windows applications in eSmith can work with your client computer -- you can save documents from the applications directly to the disk drives on your client computer, and can print to a printer attached to the client computer, with no intermediate steps No more login screens -- once you have saved your Netware account information in the portal you will have single sign-on access to the applications
• More tightly controlled application publishing -- faculty or staff who need applications published for teaching or administrative purposes can make the applications visible only to certain users, and can limit the number of copies of an application that are launched (to comply with licensing requirements)

Here is a list of the features and benefits to be found in eSmith:

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