VPN Connection for Mac

Objective: Connect your Mac computer to Stern's network while off campus.

Tip: Follow these instructions as the first step to getting remote access to your H drive and shared drives.

Note: after two hours of inactivity to your mapped drives you will have to follow the steps below to login again.

1. Browse to https://vpn.stern.nyu.edu/. You will see a login screen like the one below:

2. After logging in with your Stern username and password, you should now see the following page:

Click the Start button (in the far right lower corner of the box) to continue.

3. A screen similar to one of the following screens will appear:

Select Trust.

or

Click Allow.

4. The following box should appear:

You don’t need to do anything at this point except wait for the box to disappear automatically. Once it does so, without any error messages, you are now connected to Stern’s VPN. You should now see a new icon on the dock like the one below:

Once connected to the VPN, you can map your network drives by following the instructions in this guide.