Students typically use VNC to connect to Math & CS servers such as ice from other on-campus computers. Unfortunately, the incoming VNC ports are blocked at Truman's firewall, so VNC cannot be used directly to connect to on-campus resources from off-campus locations.
If your off-campus computer is a GNU/Linux system, a Mac
OS/X system, or some other Unix-based system such as BSD or
Sun, you don't need VNC at all. Just open a command window and
give the command:
ssh -X ice.truman.edu
and you're connected.
If you are unfortunate enough to have to use a Windows-based computer for an off-campus connection, ITS recommends that you set up a VPN connection for connecting to on-campus resources such as VNC and network drives. See ITS's instructions for details.
Direct off-campus connections to network drives are blocked at the firewall. However, ITS provides VPN connectivity for network drives. See ITS's instructions for details. Alternatively, once you have a connection established to ice, you can mount your network drives on either of them and thus access your network drives from off campus. To mount a network drive:
One time only, make a directory to serve as a mount
point:
mkdir ydrive
Give the smbmount command:
smbmount //hydrogen.truman.edu/ID ydrive -o
username=ID,workgroup=truman
where ID stands for your network username. You will be
prompted for your network password; after supplying it, your Y:
drive contents will be available in the ydrive directory. When
you are finished, unmount the drive with:
smbumount ydrive
The other network drives are similar. Make a directory for each, and vary only the network name. Currently, the names are:
S: drive: //ss1.truman.edu/win_apps
T: drive: //www2.truman.edu/ID
U: drive: //hydrogen.truman.edu/Student_files
Good luck!