Obtain VPN access: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 21:36, 23 April 2018

If you need VPN access to POD or CIRM, please make an appointment with the SysAdmin team by emailing cluster-admin@soe.ucsc.edu. In this email please provide the flollowing:

 your name
 your PI's name
 your PI's approval for this access (an email from your PI will be fine) 
 what other access do you need such as an unix server account or to the OpenStack

Before your appointment please make sure you have the following:

A laptop running OS X, Windows or Ubuntu and connected to eduroam. cruznet cannot connect to the VPNs. You can find the instructions on setting up eduroam at https://its.ucsc.edu/wireless/eduroam-config.html

For Macs, please download and install Tunnelblick from https://tunnelblick.net/downloads.html. Select the Stable version.

For Windows, please download and install OpenVPN Client from https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html. Select openvpn-install-2.4.5-I601.exe

For Ubuntu, please install network-manager-openvpn by typing:

 sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn

if that fails, please also install the following:

 sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn-gnome

Please do NOT worry about how to configure the software at this point. We will help you to set it up at your appointment.

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-If you need VPN access to POD or CIRM, please make an appointment with the SysAdmin team by emailing ''cluster-admin@soe.ucsc.edu''. In this email please provide your name, your PI's name, PI's approval for this access (an email from your PI will be fine) and what other access do you need such as an unix server account or to the OpenStack.
+If you need VPN access to POD or CIRM, please make an appointment with the SysAdmin team by emailing ''cluster-admin@soe.ucsc.edu''. In this email please provide the flollowing:
+  your name
+  your PI's name
+  your PI's approval for this access (an email from your PI will be fine)
+  what other access do you need such as an unix server account or to the OpenStack
 Before your appointment please make sure you have the following:
-A laptop running OS X, Windows or Ubuntu and connected to '''eduroam'''. cruznet cannot connect to the VPNs.
+A laptop running OS X, Windows or Ubuntu and connected to '''eduroam'''. cruznet cannot connect to the VPNs. You can find the instructions on setting up '''eduroam''' at https://its.ucsc.edu/wireless/eduroam-config.html
 For Macs, please download and install '''Tunnelblick''' from https://tunnelblick.net/downloads.html. Select the Stable version.