How to: Connect to your computer from home

This page contains instructions for connecting to your office computer from another computer off campus. These instructions are for connecting to a PC from another PC. These instructions will not work on an Apple computer. Please note that in order to connect to your computer remotely, the computer must be turned on. Please do not shut down your computer before leaving work. You will not be able to connect to it remotely.

Find your computer name and verify remote connection settings

Write down your computer name. If possible, please do this while you’re still at work. If you are already at home, an LTS staff person can get this information for you during business hours. To find your computer name, follow the steps below. If you already have your computer name, skip to the next section.

Step 1: Open the “Start” menu in the bottom left corner of your screen. Then select This PC.

Step 2: In the This PC, select the second tab Computer and then Properties.

Step 3: You’re Computer name is listed in the middle of the screen. For most people, it will look something like “LIB-LTS-SLKJFOI”. Please write down this computer name, observing the capitalized/uncapitalized letters.

Step 4: Select Remote Settings from the left hand menu. See that the Allow remote connections to this computer is selected. If you do not see this checked off, please contact LTS at tul-web-support@temple.edu.

Connect to your computer from home (or another computer)

Step 1: Login to remote.temple.edu with your accessNet and password, find the Remote Desktop connection icon. Select Remote Desktop Connection.

Step 2: Enter the Computer Name that you wrote down above. If that does not work add tu.temple.edu to the end of the computer name like “LIB-LTS-SLKJFOI.tu.temple.edu” Select Connect.

Step 3: Enter your Accessnet username and password. For most, this will be your tuaxxxxx username. Select Connect.