Home office for D-MATH members
We explain below what you have to do to be able to work efficiently from your home, for instance how to setup a secure network connection to the ETH Zurich using VPN (eg. to access ETHIS, electronic resources like journals, file shares, …), how to access your e-mails, your files and a virtual linux desktop.
VPN
You can setup a secure network connection to the ETH Zurich by connecting to the VPN server using a VPN client.
Installation
We recommend that you install the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client directly from here: https://sslvpn.ethz.ch. Login (with your-eth-username@staff-net.ethz.ch and your network password “Wi-Fi/VPN”) and follow the instructions.
If you can not install this client and your device only supports the Cisco IPsec protocol, you will additionally need a “Group name” and a “Shared secret” for the configuration (see below), that you have to request per e-mail from the ISG D-MATH.
Configuration
The general VPN configuration is not enough to access all resources of the D-MATH, hence configure it using this setting:
| Server URL | sslvpn.ethz.ch/math-guest |
| Username | your-eth-username@math-guest.ethz.ch |
| Password | network password (Wi-Fi/VPN) |
Note: some laptops managed by the ISG D-MATH have already been configured with a different server URL (sslvpn.ethz.ch/math-clients) and a different username (your-eth-username@math.ethz.ch), which is also good for the “home office”, so don’t change it.
Print on your local printer
If you are using the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client and you would like to print on you local network printer, then try to change the following setting:
E-mails
You can either access your e-mails directly via web browser (no need to install anything) or install and configure your favourite e-mail client:
- Webmail: Outlook Web Access (OWA)
- Instructions for e-mail client configuration (see “Instructions / FAQ / How To / Tips” > “Mailbox – Mailclient… PDF”).
Files
You can access the files that you have on the network drive via SMB (recommended for administration staff and also for all macOS users) or via SFTP (recommended for all Linux users).
Access via SMB
Connect to:
- smb://shares.math.ethz.ch (macOS & Linux)
- \\shares.math.ethz.ch (Windows)
and login with your eth-username and your e-mail password.
MacOS
Select the Finder, in the menu Go, click on Connect to server…, enter the address smb://shares.math.ethz.ch, click on Connect and authenticate. Afterwards you will be prompted to select a “volume” like “your-eth-username”, “www” or “share-xyz”.
Linux
Open Files (Nautilus), click on Other Locations, enter the address
- smb://shares.math.ethz.ch/NAME_OF_THE_SHARE
click on Connect and authenticate.
Windows
Click on the Start button, enter run, enter the address \\shares.math.ethz.ch and authenticate. Afterwards you will be prompted to select a share like “your-eth-username”, “www” or “share-xyz”.
Access Via SFTP
The official SFTP server of the D-MATH is sftpmath.math.ethz.ch but with the “home office” setup (in particular using the “math-guest” or the “math-clients” VPN) you can access almost all linux computers of the department, in particular all Central Clients (ex. ion-*, ada-*).
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More information about accessing your files via SFTP can be found here.
Virtual Linux Desktop
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