Windows Access From Offsite

As part of the effort to continue to strengthen our IT security, and to comply with the campus requirement, our exemption from the campus Windows RPC services blocking will cease after Dec. 21, 2005.

This will impact remote authentication to our Windows Active Directory (ie. the “EECS” domain) from offsite. It will also prevent ALL remote mounting of coeus, project, or WinSWW from any Windows system. Some examples are listed here:

You will not be able to log in to the “EECS” domain with your account and password if you are on the internet.

You will not be able to map or mount any drives such as \\coeus, \\project, or \\winsww (or any of your research group shares).

You will not be able to access \\print directly.

You will not be able to access fontus.eecs.berkeley.edu (Exchange server) directly.

This block was put in place by campus SNS group at UCB border approximately two years ago. EECS has an exemption, but the exemption is expiring.

There are two ways to alleviate this impact:

1. Use “remote desktop” to log into hermes.eecs.berkeley.edu (or your own terminal server) and access your data. For more information on this, please follow this link.

2. Use the campus VPN service. This will give you an UC Berkeley campus IP address, and allow you to authenticate and access directly our resources.

If you have any questions, please contact help@eecs.