{"id":4966,"date":"2012-06-01T13:14:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/blogs\/it-services\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2021-12-08T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:52:15","slug":"remote-desktop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/internalresources\/it\/it-tools-and-resources\/remote-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Remote Desktop Connection allows you to access and control your office computer from any other computer, on or off campus. This is a function primarily for users of Windows PCs, although you can connect from a Mac to a Windows machine using the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/microsoft-remote-desktop-10\/id1295203466?mt=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Remote Desktop Client for Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To connect to your computer, you must first know the machine name. To find the machine name:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Log into your office computer.<\/li><li>Right-click the <strong>Start&nbsp;<\/strong>menu.<\/li><li>Click <strong>System<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Under Device specifications, <strong>Full Device name<\/strong> is the name of your computer<\/li><li>Your machine name may also be located on a sticker on your computer.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>To connect, simply run the\u00a0<strong>Remote Desktop Connection<\/strong>\u00a0application on a Windows machine, or the\u00a0<strong>Remote Desktop Client<\/strong> program on a Mac. Enter the machine name you copied during step #4 above, and log in with your Unity ID and password. You may need to add wolftech\\ in front of your Unity ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Connecting from OFF-CAMPUS <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To connect to your work machine from off-campus using Remote Desktop, you will first need to be using a secure VPN connection. The simplest way to establish a VPN connection is to visit <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/oit.ncsu.edu\/campus-it\/campus-data-network\/vpn\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and follow the instructions on the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Graduate Student Remote Desktop Access <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are a CNR graduate student and would like to request remote desktop access. Please submit a request using our <a href=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/internalresources\/it\/forms-home\/get-help\/\">Get Help form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Remote Desktop Connection allows you to access and control your office computer from any other computer, on or off campus. This is a function primarily for users of Windows&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":4949,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4966","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/internalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/internalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/internalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/internalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/internalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/internalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352323,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/internalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4966\/revisions\/352323"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/internalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/internalresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}