{"id":487,"date":"2009-09-15T08:52:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T14:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/cnsit\/?p=487"},"modified":"2023-08-10T12:12:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:12:29","slug":"how-can-i-work-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/how-can-i-work-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I work from home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This how to is designed to show users how they can connect to their office computer from home. At the time of this writing these directions will only work if the office computer on campus is a Windows computer. These directions also assume the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Power.\u00a0 You cannot work from home if the power is out.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; You have a Cable or DSL Internet connection at home.\u00a0 Dial up will not provide adequate bandwidth for this to be useful.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Your office computer is running Microsoft Windows XP or newer. (<em>Please though, don&#8217;t tell me you are still running Windows XP!?<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Your office computer is left \u2018On\u2019 when you are not in the office and that it does not go into \u2018Standby\u2019 or \u2018Hibernation\u2019 after a specific amount of time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the above checks out, then you will need to know what the IP address is of your office computer.\u00a0 To get this, simply browse to the following web site from your office computer and write down the IP Address:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatismyip.org\/\">http:\/\/whatismyip.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will also need to turn on Remote Desktop on your office computer.\u00a0 Follow these directions for your version of Windows:<\/p>\n<p>Windows XP \u2013 Do not use this online&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now that you have the IP address and remote desktop is turned on, you have everything you need to connect to your computer from home!<\/p>\n<p>So, when you get home, let&#8217;s now set up the CSU Secure connection.\u00a0 Here are directions for that:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/csu-vpn-duo\">https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/csu-vpn-duo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you are connected, you will need to launch the built in Windows Remote Desktop Connection client.\u00a0 You can find this by searching for &#8220;Remote Desktop&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When you launch Remote Desktop Connection client, you will see a window with a text box asking for &#8220;Computer:&#8221; &#8211; this is where you will paste in the IP address you discovered earlier.\u00a0 Once entered, click &#8220;Connect&#8221; and you should see a window that looks like your office computer login screen.\u00a0 Here, you just login with the credentials for your office computer, just like you would if you were sitting at it physically.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That should do it!\u00a0 Enjoy working from home!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This how to is designed to show users how they can connect to their office computer from home. At the time of this writing these directions will only work if the office computer on campus is a Windows computer. These directions also assume the following: &#8211; Power.\u00a0 You cannot work from home if the power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-computing","category-internet-networking","category-knowledge-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4885,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/4885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}