[Web4lib] Mechanism for testing off-campus access from on-campus?

[John Bickar]

Good suggestions all; each method has its pluses and minuses.

As residential ISPs sometimes present weird off-campus access problems, 
  I normally run VNC over an SSH tunnel into my home machine.

XP-to-Mac-OS-X step-by-step here 
<http://www.stanford.edu/~jbickar/projects/Tunnelling_VNC_over_SSH.pdf> 
(PDF)

-John Bickar
Stanford University

M. Jean Williams-Adams wrote:
> This is the method I use here at FAMU.
> 
> M Jean Williams Adams
> Systems Librarian
> Florida A&M University
> Coleman Library
> Tallahassee, FL 32307-4700
> Phone:  (850) 561-2131
> Fax:  (850) 561-2599 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dowling
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:35 AM
> To: Jim Coble
> Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Mechanism for testing off-campus access from on-campus?
> 
> A common kludge is to exclude one on-campus workstation's IP address from your
> accepted ranges.  Voila, an "off-campus" machine.
> 
> Or, explain to your boss that you need to work from home occasionally to test
> proxy issues.
> 
> 
> Thomas Dowling
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
> 
> 
> On 08/13/2009 08:56 AM, Jim Coble wrote:
>> We currently use EZProxy to provide off-campus access to licensed
>> electronic resources to Duke faculty, staff, and students.  Library staff
>> on campus are not, however, able to test or troubleshoot EZProxy settings
>> since they are, well, on campus and have a Duke IP address.  I'm interested
>> to know if / how other libraries have addressed this issue.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
> 
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