Computer Documentation Wiki
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Printing from laptops
FIRST: when you are printing from the wireless network, make sure you use a VPN (institute VPN or EduVPN) as a means of authenticating and becoming part of the institute network; EduROam in general, as a worldwide network, is not consideredtext/html2026-05-29T13:27:35+00:00venemans (venemans@undisclosed.example.com)printing
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Printing
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Printing from laptops
There is a separate page about the printer setup on personal laptops.
Queuing your print
The command 'printers' should give you a list of printers available to people at the observatory, and the location of them. After selecting the closest one to you (or one a little further in case you missed your workout) you can print (postscript!) files with the commandtext/html2026-05-18T08:23:59+00:00jansen (jansen@undisclosed.example.com)meetingroom
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Reservation Guest Workspaces and Meeting Rooms Gorlaeus Building
Introduction
A guest workspace or a meeting room in the Gorlaeus Building can be reserved yourself via the online reservation system “Shareddesk” or through the Observatory Secretariat (secretaries@strw.leidenuniv.nl). If you need to set up recurring (group) meetings every (other) week, please email the secretariat. You can, however, make a reservation (one slot at a time) yourself at max 1 month ahead of time.text/html2026-05-11T12:33:20+00:00jansen (jansen@undisclosed.example.com)virtualdesktopserver - [How to use the Virtual Desktop Server]
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Virtual Desktop Server
Leiden Observatory provides a cluster of six powerful compute servers that Sterrewachters can use for their research projects (the old bach1,2,3 servers are now integrated in this system and the original /net/bach#/data2 disks have been copied totext/html2026-05-11T12:25:12+00:00jansen (jansen@undisclosed.example.com)remote_access
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Remote access
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* VPN
* SSH terminal access
* SSH from Linux or MAC
* SSH from Windows
* SSH Tips & tricks (tunnels, proxy)
* SSH from within VScode
* Graphical access (remote desktop)
* VNC to Linux desktops from Linux, MAC or Windows
* X2go to Linux desktops from Linux, MAC or Windows
* Remote Desptop Protocol (RDP)
* Web-based access (Open on Demand)
* <https://vdesk.strw.leidenuniv.nl> STRW virtual desktop cluster (vdesk
* vdesk manuals
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Lorentz Institute For Theoretical Physics
News New UL policy on Automatic Mail ForwardingBeware of Phishing EmailsA phishing email is an email that looks like originating from a reputable institution and that usually contains a request to click on a link to confirm/modify etc.. one's credentials. In fact this link willtext/html2026-04-22T07:13:40+00:00olexandr (olexandr@undisclosed.example.com)vpn - [EduVPN]
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Remote access using VPN
EduVPN
Leiden University participates in EduVPN.
Your login name at EduVPN will be your university (ULCN) accountname.
For questions about EduVPN see also this page or contact <helpdesk@issc.leidenuniv.nl> .
Sterrewacht
There is a new OpenVPN server that allows you to connect your personal computer/device to the internet as if it were part of the institute computer network. The server is a standalone server with the sole purpose of providing VPN connections, and to …text/html2026-04-21T12:14:27+00:00jansen (jansen@undisclosed.example.com)accounts - [Which account to user where]
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All you need to know about accounts
There are two accounts with which you have to work during your stay at the Observatory:
* STRW account, personal account at the Observatory
* ULCN account, personal account for the central university facilitiestext/html2025-10-07T14:19:06+00:00jansen (jansen@undisclosed.example.com)linux_teams_5.png - created
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