Get Your User Name

When you log on to the College of Business network, or access your email via web mail on a remote computer, the system will ask for three items: 

1. your username (we also sometimes call it your Netcode),
2. your password and
3. a domain name. 

Username (also called Netcode)

The Username is derived from information about you (Full Name, Birth date, and student ID number).  Here is how it works:

Username Example: Jack Russell Simon Coatman.

1. Write down the first three letters of your last name.  In the example this would be COA.
2. Write down the initials for your first and middle names.  In the example that would be JR.  We now have COAJR.
   • If you have no middle initial, use only the initial of the first name. 
   • If you have multiple middle names, use only the first.
3. Write down your day of birth.  In the example, that would be Nov 14th, so use 14.
   • Dates from 1-9 would be entered as 01-09.  June 6, for example would be 06 (zero 6 not the letter O 6).
     • Our example is now COAJR14 for Nov 14 or COAJR06 for June 6.
4. Write down the right-most digit of the sum of the last three numbers in your student ID.
   • For 999-333-054, the last three digits are 054 -- sum 0+5+4=9
     • The right-most digit of the sum would be 9.
     • This would result in COAJR149
   • For 999-333-154, the last three digits are 154 -- sum 1+5+4=10
     • The right-most digit of the sum would be 0 (zero, not the letter O).
     • This would result in COAJR140
5. This complete result is your username.  This is what you use to log on and this is what identifies your files on the Student P-Data server.

Password

• If you forget or lose your password, you will need to ask someone at the Help Desk in the basement computer lab to reset your password.
• Your password is initially set up as your OSU student ID number, or the same password you use when you log on and register for classes at OSU. 
• You will need to change this password.  It is easy for someone to figure out both your username and your password.  Use the procedure described in the Changing Passwords page to change your password.
• Passwords are case sensitive--if the system will not accept your password, check to see if the Num Lock or Caps Lock lights are showing and try again.

Domain

• Normally you will not need to supply the domain.  If it is not present in the log-on box, then change it to BUS.

Logging ON

To get started on one of the College of Business computers, simply turn on the display and computer (if not already on) and press and hold the [ctrl] and [alt] keys and then press the [del] key.  We call this the control-alt-delete the "wake up."  This signals the network that you want to log on, and you will see the log-on dialog asking for your user name, password and the domain.  Enter these and click OK or press the enter key.