Thanks for that tip, very useful!
Shirley
El 28/09/2016 a las 10:58 a.m., Scott Stangroom escribió:
> Opera web browser has a free VPN setting.
>
> Download latest version of Opera (if you don't already have it); open the
> Menu (very top left of browser); select "settings"; then select "privacy &
> security"; then check off VPN. Test by going to a site such as
> http://www.whatsmyip.org.
>
> ~Scott
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sinclair
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> Subject: [lis-e-resources] Replicating remote access on campus.
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> Hello list,
>
> Increasingly we need to check access to resources from outside our campus
> network to support remote users and I just wondered how other libraries are
> doing this?
>
> So far as I'm aware all of our campus computers are on the same IP range
> that we give our suppliers so I have on occasion used my mobile to access
> resources 'remotely'. This is not ideal for a number of obvious reasons.
>
> I initially spoke to our IT department about getting a Tor browser, but
> again, the reasons for not being allowed to are obvious enough. The next
> suggestion was a VPN but I was told the service they provide would not be
> suitable as it serves to bring external clients on to our internal network.
>
> I just wondered if there was a simple solution I've overlooked?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Angus
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