Secure connections to campus via VPN are required for certain services, one of which is access to College Shares.
VPN connections can be made through a secure Web-based SSL client, https://vpn.utexas.edu, for many OS's including Apple's 10.7 OS (Lion). However, there are reported issues so please see the following steps for troubleshooting.
There is a reported problem with the Java installation portion of the VPN portal setup. Users may experience that the process seems to hang at the Sun Java portion of the connection. |
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If this occurs and the wait takes longer than a minute, quit the web browser. |
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Within the Apple OS Finder, navigate to Applications>Utilities and locate the Java Preferences App. |
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Within the Java Preferences App, make sure that the 32-bit version of Java is listed first in order. If it is not, click and drag it to the top of the list. |
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Close Java Preferences and restart your web browser and try https://vpn.utexas.edu |
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If the Java Preferences app does not exist in the Utilities folder, it can be manually installed via Software Update or the following link from Apple:
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