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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 URZ with your UNI ID (e. g. xx000): https://vpn-ac.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/+CSCOE+/logon.html#form_title_text (a version is also available on nextcloud: https://nextcloud.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/nextcloud/s/TBoFBgaas8YXENd)

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

• Choose the server "vpn-ac.uni-heidelberg.de (or "Uni Heidelberg-vpnsrv1" (vpnsrv1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de) or vpnsrv0) then click on "Connect".

 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.

Enable the Remote Desktop Server on a Windows 10 PC

To enable the possibility to establish a Remote Desktop Connection to your PC you have to enable Remotedesktop in the control pannel. To do this search for "Remote Desktop Settings" (Remotedesktopeinstellungen) in the search box and turn "Enable Remote Desktop" to on ("Remotedesktop aktivieren" -> "Ein").

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