Home Working
Using Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Using Remote desktop facilities (staff only)
Transfer Files using SSH/ SFTP
University Desktop (UniDesk) (staff/students)
Why would you need to access the University remotely?
- To work from home
- You are travelling on a business trip
- You are working at another University
- You are on holiday
- You are working anywhere where you have a device that allows you to connect to the internet.
What you can access?
Using an internet connection you can connect from home and access all the tools and your work files that would normally be available while on the campus. All it takes is a small amount of work from yourselves to set up both your home or work computer.
How to connect to the University?
You can connect to the University from home in several different ways:
1: Create connection to the University Network
Using Virtual Private Network (VPN)
2: Map your University files to your home computer
Mapping drives and printers 
3: Remote desktop into your University workstation and see all programs and files as thou you were sat at your desk
Using Remote desktop facilities
4: Make Remote desktop green and boot up your computer using our green option of Wake on LAN:
Setting up Wake on LAN
5: You can connect straight to our University remote desktop central software repository (UniDesk)
Access University Desktop
If you have broadband at home we recommend using Virtual Private Network (VPN) for your connection.
How to Transfer Files?
If you want to transfer files held at the University - either on shared drives or your personal home directory, you can map drives.
If you want to transfer your files from your computer at home to your University directory you can use Secure File Transfer protocol (SFTP). It is also possible to gain secure access to applications on the University's Unix machines using SSH.