Obtain VPN access

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.