Remotely access your office PC
Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the SAIF network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the SAIF network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the SAIF network. In addition, many servers and other resources (e.g., your office computer, printers) managed by institute require VPN before accessing them.

Find out your IP address before connecting to the VPN
1. Open Command Prompt.
For Windows 7, Go to Start >> All Programs >> Accessories >> Command Prompt.
For Windows 8 and 10, right click Start >> Command Prompt.

2. Notice there will be a Command Prompt window. Type in "ipconfig" and press enter button on your keyboard.
3. Wait a few seconds and you will be given your IP address, DNS address and possibly some more information. The IP address should be "172.16.34.xxx"
Enable remote desktop on windows PC
1. For Windows 7, Click on the start menu, right click "My Computer" and click on Properties.
  For Windows 8 and Windows 10, right click Start >> System >> Remote Settings.

2. Now click on the Remote Tab and under "Remote Desktop", select "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer".

3. Now Click on "Select Remote Users". Make sure your username is listed underneath the white box. You should already have access. If your username is not Listed, proceed to add your username through the Add button.
How to remotely access your PC
1. Setup the PPTP VPN on your client PC following the user guide. 2. Go to Start >> All Programs >> Accessories >>remote desktop connection 3. Enter the host PC's IP address and click Connect.
4. If available network bandwidth between your client computer and the remote host computer is limited, you can improve a Remote Desktop experience by reducing the color depth on the Display tab of the RDC client from its default 32-bit value.
5. To copy or move file between client computer and remote host computer, click on the Tap "Local Resources" and tick "Clipboard". Click on the tap "More" making the local file system available to the Remote Desktop session. These local drives appear in the remote computer's Windows Explorer as drive letter on client-machine-name.