A secured VPN service is available to the College of Engineering faculty and staff thru the ITS network. With this service in place we are introducing remote access to a primary Mosaic Windows workstation system. This service will give the faculty access to run specific application software installed on their primary Mosaic Windows workstation as well as leverage the power of their desktop system. This service also gets around the typical Mosaic Anywhere time limit and reduces the contention for the Mosaic Anywhere servers.

To deliver this service we have to enable remote access rights to the COE faculty and staff on their primary Mosaic Windows desktop. To access this VPN service and to install a web browser java plug-in you must connect to the following link- https://connect2.uncc.edu/coe.

For more information on using SSL VPN from Windows click HERE

For more information on using SSL VPN from Mac OS X click HERE

More information for using the SSL VPN from Ubuntu Linux is coming soon.

Please make sure you follow these steps when you are done with your logged in session:

Some restrictions with VPN:

There is a time limit on the VPN connection. Timeouts are as follows:  Inactivity - 120 min, Max Session - 240 minutes  When you approach the time limits you will get a warning message.

Certain network based applications will not work while you have a secured VPN session open.  We have seen that Open AFS client and Outlook Web Access (OWA) will not be able to open a network connection while you have a secured VPN session open.

If you have any problems or questions with using this service please use one of the contact points: