VPN - SECS Computer Technology Office

What is a VPN?
The VPN or Virtual Private Network, allows you to access SECS network resources from outside the OU network. For A list of what and what can not be accessed from offsite see http://www.oakland.edu/secs/cto/remote.

Below is a tutorial video the Computer Technology Office has made in order to promote understanding of the VPN. Please watch and follow along with the video if you are interested in connecting to the VPN. If you have further questions, contact us at help@secs.oakland.edu.

How to use the VPN

Limitations

While we make our best effort to provide remote access services to SECS users, by the very nature of remote access it is inherently unreliable. In addition we have a 50 concurrent user cap that may be reached during peak usage time. Our stated goal is to achieve 98% availability. Also while we will provide a troubleshooting guide and basic troubleshooting help through our issue tracking system, it is the end user's responsibility to get the vpn working on their own machine.

Connecting to the SSL VPN

There are two methods for connecting to the new VPN. Web browser and using a native client.The old pptp method is no longer available (that server has been retired). The Native Client method is the recommended method.

Client method

Download and install the client for your operating system.

	AventailConnect-Linux.tar		3.2M
	AventailConnect-Linux64.tar		3.3M
	AventailConnect-OSX.dmg		4.9M
	AventailConnect-OSX64.dmg		5.0M
	AventailConnect-win64.exe		1.6M
	AventailConnect-win86.exe		1.3M

During the setup:

Use remote.secs.oakland.edu as the hostname for the VPN server

Select SECS as your login group

Web Browser Access Method

The SSL is web based. That means all you need to do to access the VPN is login with your SECS account to the website remote.secs.oakland.edu. After you press "log in" follow the prompts to run and install the VPN client software. Once the install is completed you should see "Acess: Full Network Access" on the top bar. As long as you leave the browser open, you will be connected to the SECS network. In addition to providing tunel network access the VPN website also provides an easy way to download and upload to your SECS network drive.

Supported Systems

O.S.	Browser / client	Notes
Windows xp, vista, 7, 8	IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10, Firefox, Safari	requires java
Linux	Firefox	requires java
Apple IOS	Safari	requires java
Android	Sonicwall Mobile connect connect	Available from Android Market
iphone / ipad / ipod	SonicWALL Mobile Connect	Available from the App Store