The staging server is accessible for file transfers, shell sessions, and web browsing from anywhere on the Internet.

Another option for maintaining your site from home, on the road, or at another institution is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) account. With VPN software, your remote computer is virtually put on the Museum's internal network over an encrypted tunnel, allowing you access to resources that you would not have from the outside. To get VPN access, please see the IT Department's web pages on this topic, and follow the instructions that you find there.

With a VPN (Virtual Private Network) account, you first run a program on your computer that puts your computer virtually on the Museum's internal network, then you connect via one of the protocols described elsewhere in this document.

Please note that, while Research Informatics is in charge of the research webservers, IT is in charge of network access to the server, in other words, everything that happens between your computer and the server.