How to connect to VPN from off campus

With the advent of new technology we are now able to allow a person to securely connect to their campus computer from off campus if they have a broadband connection.  Here is a step by step procedure for performing this operation.

Requirements:
     1) Broadband connection
     2) Your work computer turned on
     3) IP address of the machine you are going to connect to
     4) An account to log in to on the VPN

Open Internet Explorer and enter the following URL muvpn.mansfield.edu which should give you the following screen

 
Click Yes

The next screen will be the first log-in screen and look like this

Here you will type in the username and password that your IT contact gave you.

The next screen will be:

Next screen is:

Click Yes on this screen

Next screen is:

Click Install Certificate

Next screen is:

Click Next

Next screen is:

Click Next

Next screen is:

Click Finish

Next screen is:

Click Yes on this screen

Next screen is:

Click OK

Next screen is:

Click Yes on this screen which will add a small yellow key to the task bar at the bottom left of your screen near the time display, like the one below:

Once you have this key in place you can now connect to your machine on campus and control it from the machine you are on.  To make the actual connection you will use Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection.  To open this program you do the following:

Click

Then go up to Programs.

Go to Accessories.

Go to Communications .

Finally Click on Remote Desktop Connection which will launch this screen.

 
Type in the IP address of your work computer and click Connect and you should get the Novell Login screen .

 
Enter your password and you will then be working directly on your campus machine.

A couple of things to keep in mind while in this mode are:

1) You are not working on the machine you are sitting at, you are working on the remote machine.
2) You can only save things to the hard drive unless you left a disk in the drive of you work machine before  you left campus.
3) The response time will be slower than what it is in your office because you are working remotely.
4) The connection may not work every time.  We are just getting this up and running, there will be glitches, when they occur, please let us know.