You may find on some desk in the Observatory standard docking stations that can be used for any Windows, Mac or Linux based laptop, provided it has a USB-C connector. Our docking stations are connected to a keyboard, mouse, two screens, cabled internet and a power supply. You just have to connect your laptop using the available USB-C cable and boot it.

• Windows: you need to go to the settings->Display wher you can set you preferred screen orientations and layout.
• MacOS: you need to install the free package DisplayLink Manager once before you connect to the docking station
• Linux: normally your window manager has a Display menu item in which you can set the layout and orientation of the different screens.

To access our Remote Windows Desktop Servers you must use a program which can tunnel the Remote Desktop Protocol over ssh. For the different operating systems this is described:

• Windows Tunnelier
• MacOS RDP over ssh
• Linux RDP over ssh