Virtual Private Networks
People often need to connect to the NAU network from home or when they travel for sending and receiving email and getting at their files on campus. However most people who live off campus tend to have thier own internet service provider. As a consequence these user must create what is called a VPN connection back to NAU. This effectively creates a secure tunnel from their ISP back to NAU and allows those people to securely send and receive email and get at files.
If you are not familar with creating a VPN connection please see the information at the following ITS site: VPN Help
Mapping Drives from off-campus
Useful for home computers or laptops
Once you have a VPN connected many users would like to map drives that they are familiar with back on campus.
We have created a little utility that can be installed on a Windows XP computer that will automatically map drives for you. A screen shot is shown below:
This can be downloaded from here
You install this application by double-clicking it. This launches a WinZip installer:
Just click Unzip, and then Close. DO NOT change the "Unzip to folder" from C:\ as the installer places the files in the correct location on you computer. You should get a desktop shortcut like this:
