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Remote working
This page helps you to use School computers from home.
Before you start - data security
For essential security measures, and to learn what you must do before handling personal or sensitive data, see this page before going any further:
Learning and teaching from home
Travel
Get access to Informatics computers
Before you can access Informatics computers remotely, you will need to be using a ⇒ VPN.
Once your VPN is connected, you can use the DICE desktop environment remotely via the ⇒ remote desktop service.
If you want a text-only login to DICE, see ⇒ External login (ssh) servers.
Sometimes all you need is a virtual machine on your own laptop: ⇒ Virtual DICE.
Staff and postgraduate research students with their own office DICE computer can login remotely to it:
- First, start ⇒ OpenVPN to get in to the Informatics network (through the ⇒ firewall).
- Then use either ⇒ ssh for a text-based login, or ⇒ remote desktop for a graphical login.
- If your office computer is sleeping, you can ⇒ wake it up remotely.
Working from your home computer
You can read and send email from anywhere. See the ⇒ mail page for further details.
You can install some University-licensed software (including MATLAB) on your own computer at home, if you have one. To find out more see ⇒ Licensed software for personal machines.
To hold meetings, chat, videoconferencing, see ⇒ Online Meetings.
We have advice on getting ⇒ remote access to restricted web pages.
To access your files from home see ⇒ Where are my files?
If you're having trouble seeing University web pages, see ⇒ How to test your network.
Backups
If you keep University files on your computer, you should make backup copies of them.
Working from home
Information Services has a helpful ⇒ Off-site working page.