Setting up your Home Mac

The Configuration settings for your HOME Mac will be a little different, depending on the type of OFFICE computer that you’re connecting TO.

Click here if you’re connecting TO another Mac 

Click here if you’re connecting TO a PC

Setting up your HOME Mac to connect to your OFFICE Mac.

1. Request VPN from HSPH IT – provide ID #, email address, billing code
2. HSPH will send you an email with instructions for setting up your VPN account (similar to what follows:)
3. Use a web browser to log-in to http://vpn5.harvard.edu
4. Download Cisco Anyconnect VPN client
5. Create tunnel:
   1. Go to Applications > Cisco > Cisco Anyconnect  VPN Client
   2. Select vpn5.harvard.edu
   3. Log in with your credentials

i.     User: XXXXXXX@HSPH

ii.     Pasword: Harvard PIN

1. Finder > Go > Connect to server
   1. Enter: vnc://ip-address
   2. Click the + button to add the IP address to your favorites
2. Screen Sharing VNC application will open

Connecting from your HOME Mac

Each time you connect from your “home” Mac:

1. Go to the Cisco Anyconnect VPN program, enter your HSPH PIN password, and click accept.
2. Go to Finder > Go > Connect to server.  Your IP address should already be there from the initial setup, click connect. You should be taken to your “office” desktop, maybe to your login page.

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Setting up your HOME Mac to connect to your OFFICE PC.

1. Request VPN from HSPH IT – provide ID #, email address, billing code
2. HSPH will send you an email with instructions for setting up your VPN account (similar to what follows:)
3. Use a web browser to log-in to http://vpn5.harvard.edu
4. Download Cisco Anyconnect VPN client
5. Create tunnel:
   1. Go to Applications > Cisco > Cisco Anyconnect  VPN Client
   2. Select vpn5.harvard.edu
   3. Log in with your credentials

i.     User: XXXXXXX@HSPH

ii.     Pasword: Harvard PIN

1. In addition to the Cisco program, you will also need a remote desktop program. Download Microsoft RDC software from: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client
2. Open the RDC software by Applications > Remote Desktop Connection
   1. Enter the IP address of the computer you’re connecting to and click Connect
   2. A warning dialogue will pop up, click Connect
   3. Screen Sharing RDC application will open to the log-in of the OFFICE computer

Connecting from your HOME Mac

Each time you connect from your “home” Mac:

1. Go to the Cisco Anyconnect VPN program, enter your HSPH PIN password, and click accept.
2. Open the RDC software by Applications > Remote Desktop Connection, enter the IP address and connect