This guide outlines things to consider while working from a remote location. If you need any assistance with the areas discussed below, we can help.
- Using the Campus VPN
- Software Downloads - Personal Machines
- Mounting Your Network Drives from Home
- Connecting to a campus Windows PC (remote.mtu.edu) from Windows
- Getting Help
Using the Campus VPN
The campus VPN gives you a secure connection from your remote location to campus. A VPN connection is needed to do things like connect to a campus computer with remote desktop. The following links provide instructions on how to connect to the VPN based on operating system:
Software Downloads - Personal Machines
Some software is available for download to your personal machine. More information is available in our knowledge base article on the Software Distribution Center.
Mounting your Network drives from home
You can mount your home drive and multidrive remotely once you’ve connected to the VPN. Learn how to at: Mounting H: and M: Drives on Windows Machines.
Getting Help
We can help. Michigan Tech IT will continue to monitor email to it-help@mtu.edu and phone calls to 906-487-1111.