Work from home or abroad¶

The following guides should help you to do home office or work remotely, while travelling abroad.

VPN¶

Many resources (eg. Ethis, scientific journals) are restricted to the ETH network. With VPN your computer behaves as if its was directly connected to the ETH network.

Email¶

Our webmail provides quick access to your D-PHYS mails from anywhere. Consider using a normal email client for longer and more comfortable email access.

Storage¶

Your home and group shares can be accessed remotely with VPN.

Video Conference¶

We host a Jitsi server for audio and video calls. ETH provides access to Zoom for virtual meetings and video conferences.

Chat / collaboration¶

ISG offers a powerful chat solution (Slack replacement).

Phone¶

You can forward your ETH phone to another number in Switzerland or abroad (depending on your call restrictions). Various settings can be viewed and changed over the go2phone.ethz.ch web interface.

Remote login¶

We provide a windows terminal server winlogin.phys.ethz.ch and a Linux server login.phys.ethz.ch for SSH.

You may also request remote RDP access to your managed Windows workstation. If you enable RDP on unmanaged machines, please set strong passwords and keep in mind that you need VPN for access from outside ETH.

In case you don't know the name of your computer, have a look at registration.phys.ethz.ch, which lists all hosts registered on your name. The Sent Name is used for the sentname.dhcp[-int].phys.ethz.ch DynDNS, and the DNS Name corresponds to static dnsname.ethz.ch hostnames.

Filemaker Databases¶

After installing of the Filemaker application, you need to configure our server which is described here. For access from outside ETH you need VPN.

Remote support¶

This is similar to TeamViewer, please visit https://ethz.ch/services/de/it-services/service-desk.html and download Re­mo­te Sup­port Cli­ent, start ISLLightClient, enter code given by the admin.

Other things to keep in mind¶

Beware that all files and settings that are stored locally on your ETH computer can not easily be accessed from outside. We recommend to keep all files in your home or group shares. Also consider exporting your browser bookmarks, so that you can transfer them to your computer at home.