Personal Laptops

In our institute, you can use Wi-Fi or LAN to connect your laptop to the internet. In both cases, you will need a voucher. Every new guest gets two vouchers together with the login info. If you do need more vouchers for additional devices, please generate them yourself in our Self Service Portal. In case you want to register a laptop for your guest (without an extra login), you must fill in your guest’s full name and date of departure.

Note

We can not provide you with software or licenses bought by the MPI MIS. We also don’t back up your personal laptops.

Connecting to Network

For a wired connection, you can use the LAN cable in your office/flat to connect your laptop. If you would like to use a Wi-Fi network, please choose the SSID MIS-voucher or eduroam (see below).

Use DHCP for your network configuration (both wired and wireless).

Once you are connected to the network, please open a web browser to complete the verification process. You will be directed to the voucher portal where you must enter the voucher code and accept the rules.

The eduroam network is outside the institutes internal network. Therefore, you don’t have direct access to internal services of the institute like the Self Service Portal. For more information on how to connect to our internal network from anywhere, see our guide on using OpenVPN.

You can connect to inside the MPI MIS network using ssh for login or scp for file transfer from or to your account only using the servers hydra.mis.mpg.de or login.mis.mpg.de. More information can be found here.

Email

To read and write emails with your MPI MIS address, please refer to our email setup guide

Printer Setup

If you want to connect yourself to a printer within the building, please follow this guide