To make working from home or from a Flexdesk as easy as possible we have build a Remote Desktop Facility that provides you with a full graphical desktop, which is running inside the University Campus, available from you private device such as a personal desktop or laptop. Many of you have already been using your institute Windows desktop as a graphical desktop server, but this requires you to leave that system power on during your absence. In fact for those that do not have an institute desktop (flexdesk users) there was only limited access to the Texel server possible.

With the implementation of a Remote Desktop Service (RDS), you have access to a farm of servers providing you the same experience as your institute desktop as graphical sever. In fact accessing the RDS farm is even much simpler and the way to access it does not depend on your location, on or off premises.

Below we describe in some detail how to access the RDS farm from the three major operating systems.

For all systems, you need to download a .rdp file from the RDS server. To do this go to its WEB interface at https://rds.physics.leidenuniv.nl and login with your PHYSICS or STERREWACHT domain credentials. Now confirm your 2FA:

After you have logged in you see a page with a remote computer icon. Click on the icon ad a file will be downloaded. The file has a funny name, but has the extension .rdp

The next steps are OS dependent.

• windows

• linux