Accessing the E289 E291 labs remotely In the past all E289 and E291 labs were on the internet The ssh and VNC port were exposed to the internet at large There were serveral thousand attempts per day to break into the lab from outside the University The machines have been removed from external access Or will be soon SJSU has a VPN Virtual Private Network This allows external users a secure connection to the labs and prevents anyone without a valid SJSUOne ID from accessing the labs All future remote connections will be made through the VPN There are three steps to access the E289 E291 labs remotely First access the following web page and download and install the software appropriate to your system http its sjsu edu services internet connectivity vpn Note several users have reported that the MAC and Linux already have Cisco VPN support Second access the VPN on your system You will need to enter your SJSUOne user id 9 digit number And your SJSUOne password This gives access to the lab network This will run all network requests through the VPN to the lab network You may experience slower web browsing while using the VPN Third access a lab machine using either ssh or remote desktop Remote desktop is a software package included in most windows systems It can be installed on MAC and Linux systems On fedora Linux it is called rdesktop You can access any machine from 1 to 25 and 27 to 50 Each machine allows only 3 remote sessions at a time If a machine doesn t accept you try a different machine number The machine names are coe ee cadxx sjsuad sjsu edu Where xx represents a number from 1 to 25 and 27 to 50 Note that 1 9 are a single digit and do not have a leading zero You will have to log in again to Remote Desktop using your SJSUOne user id and SJSUOne password It is important you log out each time If you don t log out tokens are left behind in vnc that will prevent you from getting in again You can remove these by getting rid of all the vnc ses files Remember you must back up your files The system makes no user backups All user files are removed after the last day of instruction may be before finals