Benchmarks Online

Skip Navigation Links

Page One

Campus Computing News

Protect Yourself From Phishing

Mean Green VM Machines

EDUCAUSE in San Antonio -- "Making IT Work for Everyone"

Today's Cartoon

RSS Matters

The Network Connection

Link of the Month

Helpdesk FYI

Short Courses

IRC News

Staff Activities

Subscribe to Benchmarks Online
    

Helpdesk FYI

By Richard Sanzone, CITC Helpdesk Manager

Campus VPN

The University of North Texas Campus VPN is an interface that will allow you to connect remotely to on-campus resources. This will allow employees and students of the University of North Texas to work from off campus using resources they otherwise could not access. The connection from the user's machine to the Campus VPN is an encrypted connection which allows secure access to resources otherwise unavailable.*

Access the Campus VPN

- Go to http://vpn.unt.edu
You will be prompted to login:

vpn login, enter EUID & password.  Group = General

- Enter your EUID and UNT enterprise password. If you do not know your EUID and/or password, look here.

- Click the "Login" button.
You will be logged into the Campus VPN.

Access a website using the Campus VPN

- Type the URL of the website in the "Address" field.

Address=http:// next field=my.unt.edu

- Click the "Browse" button.
    Your browser window will have a small VPN menu on the top right:
   vpn option buttons

- Click the "Home" button vpn home button to go back to the VPN interface.

Logout of the Campus VPN

- Click the "Logout" icon logout iconon the VPN menu to logout of the Campus VPN.

Further Documentation

Look here for the full documentation of the campus VPN.


* VPN is an acronym for Virtual Private Network For more information on VPNs see http://computer.howstuffworks.com/vpn.htm.

 


Originally published, November 2008 -- Please note that information published in Benchmarks Online is likely to degrade over time, especially links to various Websites. To make sure you have the most current information on a specific topic, it may be best to search the UNT Website - http://www.unt.edu . You can also search Benchmarks Online - http://www.unt.edu/benchmarks/archives/back.htm as well as consult the UNT Helpdesk - http://www.unt.edu/helpdesk/ Questions and comments should be directed to
benchmarks@unt.edu

 

Return to top