Remote access to virtual Windows 10 machines at FB5 (VDI)

Prerequisite: You followed the preparations.


Access from Microsoft Windows:
  1. Start your VPN client and change the VPN server address to vpn-hc.uni-bremen.de/geo-rds . Specify your Uni-Bremen-username (including @uni-bremen.de) and the corresponding password for the VPN connection

  2. In a web browser: connect to the start page.
  3. You have to log in with Domain\username:  geovdi\YOUR_GEOVDI_USERNAME and YOUR_GEOVDI_PASSWORD
  4. Click PoolV5-Win10-np.rdp . This should either open "Remotedesktop Connection" or offer to download the file. After download, right click and "open with: Remote Desktop Connection"  . (For Linux and probably Mac this has to be handled differently)
    If it does not happen automatically: On your Windows PC, activate the Remote Desktop Client (e.g., type "remote desktop" in the command field of the Windows taskbar and activate the RD client)
  5. Trust the certificate of rdlic.geovdi.geo.uni-bremen.de
  6. After some seconds you will see a window "Anmeldeinformationen eingeben". If it does NOT show "GEOVDI\YOUR_GEOVDI_USERNAME" select "Weitere Optionen" Select "Anderes Konto verwenden" and specify "GEOVDI\YOUR_GEOVDI_USERNAME" together with your password
  7. If you get a window informing about login problems with "RDSGW2..." just enter your password again.

You should now have a Windows-10 Desktop.


Access from a Linux desktop (tested on CentOS 7.9 and Ubuntu 22.04)
Access from a Mac: The following worked once on a Macbook (hint: If the backslash is not on your keyboard you can get it with "Option + shift + 7")

Remarks:

[Remote access intro]  [GEO PC pool] 

Contact: Andreas Manschke and Heike Piero


7 July 2023