EDV:VPN

Windows

-> EDV:Windows Remote Desktop

OpenVPN

• open "http://portal.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/kipvpn" and login with your KIP-Account
• depending 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)"
• also download the ZIP-file of the configuration files, unzip it and copy/move the files to "c:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config"
• if in the taskline on the bottom on the right side no symbol of OpenVPN is shown open the "OpenVPN GUI" in the start-menu
• do a right-click on the "OpenVPN"-Symbol and select "connect"/"Verbinden"
• to open the vpn-connection you have to use your KIP-Account and the password of it to login
• open "remotedesktopconnection"/"remotedesktopverbindung" and set as remote host the hostname of your pc <host-name>.kip.uni-heidelberg.de and click "connect"/"verbinden"
• now the connection should be established

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  OpenVPN-Configuration

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  OpenVPN-StartMenu

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  OpenVPN-TaskMenu

macOS

To connect to the KIP network by VPN you should prefer the URZ system with Cisco Anyconnect. Only if you have problems with this system you can try it with the internal VPN kipvpn with the server vpn.kip.uni-heidelberg.de.

Cisco Anyconnect

Cisco Anyconnect is needed to establish VPN connections provided by the URZ. You can download it directly on their server (you have to login with the URZ-account). After installing it you have to chose "Uni-Heidelberg - vpnsrv1" as server and connect by "<KIP-username>@kip.uni-heidelberg.de" as user and your KIP-password.

kipvpn

vpn.kip.uni-heidelberg.de is an internal server of the KIP to establish OpenVPN connections. You can download the needed software and configuration on portal.

• download „Tunnelblick_3.8.1_build_5400.dmg“ listet at „Mac OS-X - Tunnelblick“ and the configuration files by downloading „Alle Dateien in einer ZIP-Datei“. After downloading them unpack each of the configuration-files in the same folder
• edit the file „kipvpn.ovpn“ and remove „c://Programme/OpenVPN/config/“ before each filename and save it
• install Tunnelblick
• on the first start select „Ich habe Konfigurationsdateien“/“I have configuration files“ -> and in the next windows „OK“
• select „kipvpn.ovpn“ in the browser and move it to the window of tunnelblick or the symbol of Tunnelblick on the top right and select to install it for one/every user
• now click on „verbinden kipvpn“/“connect kipvpn“, enter your KIP-username and the password, on the message you can select „Nicht mehr bei DNS-Probleme jeglicher Konfiguration warnen“/“Do not warn about this again for any configuration“ and press “Ok“
• open "VPN details", click on „Einstellungen“/“Settings“ beside „Log“ at the top and select „Sämtlichen IPv4-Datenverkehr durch das VPN leiten“/“Route all IPv4 traffic through the VPN“

• now you can select „verbinden“/“Connect“ to establish a connection to he KIP-network
• don’t forget to close it, click „trennen“/“Disconnect“

Linux

Linux users are advised to use x2go

• Download x2go client from https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/download:start

• Enter the hostname portal1.kip.uni-heidelberg.de or portal2.kip.uni-heidelberg.de with port 22

If no connection can be made, please log on to https://portal.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/, read the IP address in the right column and write to weis@kip.ui-heidelberg.de

And also Openvpn can be installed to establish the connection to KIP VPN Server as mentioned in https://portal.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/kipvpn/

Download the configuration files & copy them into /etc/openvpn/