EDV:Windows Remote Desktop
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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 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!
