EDV:Windows Remote Desktop

How to access your PC remotely

To connect your PC remotely, you need to have a VPN Client installed in your laptop/PC. There are two VPN Clients Install one of the clients below.

• OpenVPN
• Cisco Anyconnect

Install OpenVPN Client (preferred - KIP VPN server)

• Goto "http://portal.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/kipvpn" and login with your KIP-Account

• Depends on your Windows version download

   "openvpn-install-2.4.8-I602-Win7.exe (Win 7 lokale Kopie der Installationsdatei)" or 
   "openvpn-install-2.4.8-I602-Win10.exe (Win 10 lokale Kopie der Installationsdatei)" and install it.

• Download the zip file of the configuration files, unzip, copy or move the files to "C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config". We have been reported, that it sometimes only work if you place the files in "C:\Users\[USER]\OpenVPN\config" with [USER] replaced by your local username.

• Click on "OpenVPN-GUI" in the start menu, you can see an openVPN icon in the system tray(right bottom corner). Right click on the icon, click on "Connect"

• Login with kip username & password. Now you are in the KIP network.

Install Cisco Anyconnect VPN Client (URZ VPN Server)

• Download Cisco Anyconnect VPN Client from here, https://nextcloud.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/nextcloud/s/TBoFBgaas8YXENd

• Double click to install, once done, open Cisco AnyConnect Client

• Choose the server "Uni Heidelberg-vpnsrv1" (vpnsrv1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de) then click on "Connect". vpnsrv0 is also possible. Both share now the same IP-range.

 User name: kipusername@kip.uni-heidelberg.de (not your email-id)
 Password : your KIP Password

• Click on "Accept"

Now you are in the KIP network & the next step is to establish the connection remotely.

Remote Desktop Connection

• Hold "windows button" and hit "s", search for Remote Desktop Connection & Click

• Enter your computer name, for example "xyz-pc", click on "Connect"

• Enter your user name & password that you used to login into your PC (not your kip username/password)

• Click on Connect

Now you can start working from home remotely!

Remote connection without VPN

• Install x2goclient
• create a new profile with

 Host: portal1.kip.uni-heidelberg.de
 ( or portal2.kip.uni-heidelberg.de )
 Login: [your KIP-account]
 SSH-Port: 22
 Sitzungsart: Verbindung mit Windows-Terminalserver herstellen
 Server: [your PC]

• if connection is not possible, please login to https://portal.kip.uni-heidelberg.de ; write down the IP-address shown in the right column and send it to edv@kip.uni-heidelberg.de