Using+Your+CFF+Laptop+at+Home+with+VPN


 * You may want to print this page and take it home if you attempt what is on it.**

When we say **"use,"** we mean accessing the North Penn Network by way of an Internet Connection in your home (or at a place like [|Hennings], [|Bones], or anywhere else that offers a free [|Wi-Fi] connection for your wireless laptop. Click here for more places that do so). Once you access the North Penn network you will be able to:

1. Access your H-Drive 2. Access your G-Drive 3. Access your email using the Microsoft Outlook application on your laptop. (You can access it anywhere over the Internet without a CFF laptop by going to [|http://mail.npenn.org)] 4. Access your Grade Quick

For the most part your CFF laptop is like taking home your school desktop and putting it in your living room. HOWEVER, you must establish a connection to the North Penn Network. (When you are at North Penn, your CFF laptop establishes this connection automatically by wireless or by plugging the laptop in using a network cable. If you want to establish a connection to the North Penn Network using VPN you need to have the following pre-requisites in place.

1. You need a high-speed internet connection (cable or DSL. If you have Verizon or Comcast you are good. If you have dial-up, this process won't work.) 2. You need your CFF laptop. 3. You need to have logged into your CFF laptop at school at least once. 4. (Optional) Place shortcuts to your H drive and G Drive on the desktop of your laptop. (Instructions for doing so are at the bottom of Teacher Laptop Pick-Up. Look at item #4)

Once you do the above pre-requisites, you can establish a connection to the North Penn Network. When you are at home you establish the connection by doing the following:


 * 1. Establish a connection between yourr CFF laptop and the Internet.** (If you have wireless in your house, your CFF laptop should try to automatically connect to your wireless network through your wireless router. If you do not have a wireless connection in your home, you need to remove the network cable that puts internet access into your computer and plug it into the laptop.)


 * 2. Update your Trend Anti Virus**. In the bottom right corner of your screen, there is an icon that roughly looks like the one below. (It is more of an octagon than a circle though). Right click on this icon and a menu comes up. Choose "Update Now". When the dilogue box appears, click "Update Now". Let the update run and then exit out of the window when it says that it is complete.


 * 3. Turn off your Proxy Server**. Right Click Internet Explorer. This is the big blue "e" on your desktop. Select "Properties" from that menu. A window opens with a series of tabs across the top. Click the tab that says "Connections". Towards the bottom right of that box, click the button that says "LAN Settings". A new box appears. UNCHECK the button in front of “Use a proxy server for your LAN…” Click "OK". then click "OK" again to exit.

4. **Use your browser to go to** [|http://remote.npenn.org.] From here the VPN software on your computer will be activated. Just login like you would at school. Click OK through the dialogue boxes that appear. (When you first open your browser, it might say "Page Cannot Be Displayed". Do not worry. This is because the default page for your computer is set to be the school intranet page. You can't see the North Penn intranet page until you are connected to the school's network. When you first open your Internet browswer and see that, it does not necessarily mean that you are not connected to the Internet. It means that you are not connected to the school's network. If you want to change your homepage to avoid this confusion, click here).