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Mohawk College VPN User Guide
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Introduction
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Connecting to the VPN
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Supported operating systems and browsers
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Mapping network drives
Introduction
Mohawk College VPN (Virtual Private Network) service provides a web-based,
secure, authenticated remote access to the campus network, which enables
faculty, staff, partners, and consultants to work from anywhere, at anytime, using
any device including unmanaged PCs, mobile phones and PDAs. You can access
the VPN gateway using a Web browser; identify yourself to the gateway using an
authentication method such as ADMIN domain ID credential, and then is
presented with a Web page that acts as the portal to the other services. These
services might be links to other Web servers, shared files directories, applications
that run on protected servers, and any other services that can be tunneled through
a Web page.
Figure 1. SSL VPN infrastructure (cited from NIST Special Publication 800-113)
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Connecting to the VPN
Please go to: https://vpn.mohawkcollege.ca, enter your ADMIN domain ID
credential and click sign in. When the authentication is passed, a new Web page
will be shown with several kinds of services. For example, you can customize your
own bookmarks at the Web Bookmarks column; add a Windows or Unix file
directory on the Files column; create a Windows Terminal Services Session to
remotely connect to your computer on campus on the Terminal Sessions column.
You also can launch a network connection acting as a remote node of campus
network by starting Junos Pulse or Network Connect on the Client Application
Sessions column. You can easily schedule secure meetings by clicking on the
Meetings icon. All the available resources are related to user groups. (For the first
time login, the server will “push” software such as a Java applet to your computer.
Therefore, administrator privileges need to be granted to install it. If you are
prompted to accept a certificate from the website, always do so.)
Figure 2. VPN portal with the authentication pass
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Figure 3. Launching Junos Pulse network connection
Figure 4. Network connection status icon of Junos Pulse
In addition, you can use the Browse field at the top right-hand corner of the VPN
portal to quickly access many basic functions immediately.
Figure 5. Accessing network resources with Browse
If you are privileged by VPN system administrator, you would navigate to a variety
of resources including web pages, file servers, Telnet/SSH sessions, Citrix and
Windows Terminal Services sessions, and other applications. You can type texts
in the framed toolbar of the Browse field using the following formats. And then
click Browse button to start your application.
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Format
To
http://www.domain.com Browse web pages
OR
https://www.domain.com
\\server\share
OR
smb://server/share
Access shares on Windows file servers
telnet://host:port
SSH://host:port
Start a telnet/SSH session to connect to a hostname and port
ica://<hostname>
Start Citrix terminal services to connect to a hostname (Windows only)
rdp://<hostname>
Start a remote desktop session to a hostname (Windows only)
Note:
1. After 15 minutes of inactivity, you will be timed out automatically. Active
connections will be timed out after five hours.
2. To log in again, you can either use your web browser or launch the Junos
Pulse or Network Connect application. Subsequent login should go more
quickly than your first because the user end software will not need to be
downloaded again.
3. To log out, click Sign Out in the browser window or Disconnect in the
PULSE window or Sign Out in the Network Connect window.
Figure 6. Sign out on Junos Pulse or Network Connect
4. Always log out when you finish your remote access VPN session. If you do
not log out, someone could use your account to gain unauthorized access
to the network!
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5. The VPN is an alternative off-campus access option. Please do not use it
on campus because encrypting data creates network overhead and would
affect data transfer speed.
Supported operating systems and browsers
The VPN service can work with following operating systems and browsers:
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Windows:
o Windows 8 and 8.1: IE 10, Firefox 16, or above
o Windows Vista and 7: IE 7, Firefox 3 or above
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Macintosh:
o Mac OS X 10.5 and later: Safari 5.0, Firefox 3 or above
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Linux:
o OpenSuse 10.x or later: Firefox 3, Chrome 5 or above
o Ubuntu 9.10 or later: Firefox 3, Chrome 5 or above
o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or later: Firefox 3, Chrome 5 or above
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Mobile Devices:
o Blackberry smartphones or playbook 4 or later: default browser
o iPhone, iPad, iPod iOS 4 or later: default Safari
o Google Android 2 or later: default browser
(For Apple and Android devices, Junos Pulse can be downloaded from the
app store by searching “Junos Pulse”)
Note:
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If you find that you need to install the Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE),
please
visit
http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp.
Follow the download and instruction links for your operating system.
Mapping network drives
For Windows:
Automated drive mapping feature is not supported for Junos Pulse and Network
Connect. Therefore, you need to manually map network drives. Once connected to
the Mohawk VPN, enter the following command from a DOS command window.
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NET USE DriveLetter: \\ServerName\ShareName /user:admin\USERNAME
Where USERNAME is your ADMIN domain username. (e.g. john.smith)
An example command for mapping the Personal Home Drive:
NET USE H: \\mcfs01.mohawkcollege.ca\home\john.smith /user:admin\john.smith
When prompted for your password, enter your ADMIN credential.
You can disconnect network drives: Windows Explorer, right click on the drive and
choose disconnect.
For Mac OS X:
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From the Finder, hit Command+K
Enter the path to the network drive you want to map, ie:
smb://ServerName/ShareName and click “Connect”
An example for mounting the Personal Home Drive:
smb://mcfs01.mohawkcollege.ca/machome/john.smith
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Enter your login credential and click “OK”.
If you need further assistance, please contact the college Help Desk at 905-5751212 ext. 2199 or [email protected].
Last Updated: on March 15, 2014.
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