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Setting up remote & growth computers

Setting up remote & growth computers

This is the process for setting up the “buffer” computers used to remote into the growth computers.

Throughout this article remote computer will refer to the computer connected directly to the UT network and have the USB end of the USB-ethernet adapter. The growth computer will refer to the computer hosting all the MBE machine-related hardware.

Required materials

  1. USB to Ethernet adapter

    1. This can be a one port or multiport switch

  2. Ethernet cable

    1. Long enough to connect remote computer to growth computer

  3. Computer with UT Austin network connection

    1. You will need the admin login

Procedure for growth computer

  1. Log into the growth computer and open a command prompt

  2. Use the command below to see the ethernet connections

    1. ipconfig /all

  3. Make a note of the ethernet adapter information, in particular the IPv4 Address

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Procedure for the remote computer

  1. Connect an ethernet cable to the growth computer’s ethernet cable

  2. Connect the other end of the ethernet cable to an ethernet-USB adapter and then connect the adapter to the remote computer

  3. Log into the remote computer

  4. Search for View network connections

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  5. Find the USB-ethernet adapter from the list of ethernet connections

  6. Right click the adapter and select “Properties” (you need admin privileges)

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  7. Scroll to find Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and click Properties

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  8. Change the IP settings to use a static IP. Below is an example:

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    1. This is the most important part. The IP address' first 3 bytes must match the growth computer ethernet port IP address first 3 bytes. In this example the growth computer has: 10.157.36.85, on the remote computer you must then set 10.157.36.xx where the xx can be any value.

    2. Subnet mask leave at 255.255.255.0

  9. Click OK

  10. Verify you can remote into the computer. A quick check is by opening a command prompt and using the following command:

    1. ping growthcomputername

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      This is the expected output, notice the remote computer sent 4 packets and received all 4. This verifies that the computer can talk to echo-growth.

    3. Note: that if the full computer name is set on the growth computer, you can use it to remote in instead of the static IP address