To set up your computer to access to the Center for Regional Change server involves 3 steps (or you can take a shortcut and ask your IT support guru do it):

1. Updating your campus computing account services  (IMAD and ADSP);

2. Establishing a VPN Connection to the Server;

3. Mapping to the Server.

If you don’t understand what these are, don’t worry I don’t either so I’ve described the steps below:

1. Updating/Establishing  your Campus Computing Account

(this is your Kerberos Account)

Go to the UC Davis Computing Accounts Services page:
https://computingaccounts.ucdavis.edu/cgi-bin/services/index.cgi
(you can also reach this through your MyUCDavis  page)

Select  “Add or remove account services”   and click  the “Begin” button.  You will then be asked  some authentication information that you may have forgotten (like your name and id number).

If you guess the correct answers to these questions (just kidding) the next screen will give you the option to “Add services to your account” or to “Remove services from your account”. I strongly suggest choosing to add services- it will help you get access to the server.

Once you select to “add services”  click the “continue” button.

The screen is the “Grant a Service to Your LoginID”

This screen has 3 gray boxes. The Top box lists the services you currently have. The second box lists those services you are definitely eligible for. The third box lists those services you may be eligible for.

You want to make sure  IMAD and ADSP are included in the services you currently have. If they aren’t  add them.  If you have to add them I would allow 24 hours for the system to update. 

When this is done and the system is updated move to  Step 2

2. Establishing a VPN Connection to the Server

(This would be the CRC server)

What is a VPN you ask? “A network that connects one or more computers to a large network, such as a business network, using the Internet. A VPN is encrypted, so only authorized people have access to it.”

Some computer geeky info you (or your IT person) need handy:

VPN Type: PPTP
Server Address: 169.237.226.196
Domain:  ad3

To set up a VPN on a PC (Sorry I haven’t set one up on a MAC, but it should be similar) either ask your IT person (the easiest method) or:

In the Start Menu select “Control Panel” and “Network and Sharing” (in Windows)
In the side bar on the left you will see “Set Up a Connection or Network”  select that;
The screen that comes up will allow you to “Choose a Connection Option” you want to Select:
“Connect to a Workplace”

Then you will want to “Create a New Connection”  (this is where you will need all that geeky info from above)
Select “Use My Internet”

The next Screen will ask you for the Internet Address  and a Destination name:
For the Internet Address use: 169.237.226.196
For the Destination name choose a name that you will remember (say for example “Mike’s Fun Place” or  “CRC Server”)

The next screen will ask you for:

User name: This is your:                      Kerberos ID
Password: This is your           Kerberos Password
And
Domain (optional):  AD3   (in this case Domain isn’t optional)

After you enter the information test the connection to make sure it works.

A note of caution: When you are connected with the VPN connection you will be disconnected from any other network you normally use (such as departmental) so you may not be able to access other services such as departmental email exchanges (Outlook), hard drives or network printers.

Once you have created the VPN connection you are ready to map to the server.

3. Mapping to the Server.

(this means that your computer will see the server as another drive on your computer)

With your VPN connection active (connected):

From the Start Menu choose “Computer” (or “My Computer”) – as you know this will provide a list of the devices connected to your computer and the letters that identify them.

Select “Map Network Drive” (at the top in Vista);

You will be asked to choose a letter to identify the drive; Select a Letter that is not already in use, for example I used “Z:”

Then you will be asked for the folder: here you need to type in the following:

 \\crcgis.caes.ucdavis.edu\data    

Click finish.   Open “Computer” again to make sure the drive is listed, and select it to make sure the connection works.

HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah Step 4- Let your friendly Informatics Coordinator (mjfitzgerald@ucdavis.edu) know you have successfully completed these steps so you can actually USE the server.