Installing and Using Odyssey For Vista

The ACCC no longer supports Odyssey; please use SecureW2 for Windows XP and Vista instead. The good news is that SecureW2 which is much easier to use than Odyssey.

Juniper Networks -- formerly Funk Software -- Odyssey client software allows laptops running Windows Vista to connect to and use the ACCC's UIC public wireless Internet network. The Odyssey client does three things for the Windows wireless user.

Initiates and supervises the wireless connection.

Odyssey does what is needed to keep your wireless connection going after you've logged in, allowing you to ignore it if you want to. But it also allows you to monitor your connection. See The Odyssey Client Manager -- Using Odyssey below for an overview of the services that Odyssey provides in managing your wireless connection.

Authenticates both the user and the network.

Odyssey asks you for your UIC netid and ACCC password and passes them off (encrypted) to the wireless access point and then to the ACCC's Odyssey server, which checks your netid and password and vouches that you are who you say you are. It also does the reverse -- the ACCC's Odyssey server provides your client with its credentials to prove to you that it's legit. This is extremely important in wireless networks, where it's easy for anyone to set up rogue servers.

Encrypts the wireless connection.

An Odyssey initiated connection scrambles the parts of your Internet connection that are wireless -- from your PC to the wireless access point and from the access point back to your PC, including when you enter your netid and password -- so that bad guys can't eavesdrop to steal your identity or other information.

• Odyssey has an online help system:
  • Help -> HelpTopics
  • Or get context-sensitive help by pressing F1.
    
    
• On the Web
  • On Juniper Networks' -- formerly Funk Software -- Odyssey Tech Notes at http://www.juniper.net/customers/support/products/aaa_802/odyssey_kb.html
    The Hardware Compatibility Issues section has information on how to use Odyssey with specific client and AP hardware setups.)
  • Or in Odyssey, select Web -> Odyssey User Page
    
    
    
    
• Odyssey FAQs: A link to the Odyssey FAQs as well as links to other Odyssey technical info is on the Web at Odyssey Tech Support; click View by Tech Note ID number (FAQs listed first).

You must be logged on to an account on the personal computer with administrative privileges to install the Odyssey client.

There is a step-by-step version of this page, complete with screen shots for every step, at Setting Up Odyssey for Vista.

1. If your laptop has a wireless connection defined, you must to delete it. You can use Odyssey to connect to any wireless network, so deleting an existing wireless connection should not be a problem. If you would rather not do this, you can use SecureW2 instead of Odyssey. It is compatible with using Windows Wireless.
2. Click Start -> Control Panel -> Network and Internet
3. Open Network and Sharing Center.
4. Click Manage Wireless Networks.
5. If you have any wireless connections defined, right-click on its name and select Delete.

The ACCC has a site license for the Odyssey wireless connection client, which it to distributes to members of the UIC community at no cost.

• You can download Odyssey on the Web; copy it to a USB thumb/flash drive to move it to the laptop you are installing Odyssey on.

1. Download Odyssey.
2. Double-click on the UIC-OdysseyAcccessClient.msi file, then click Next > on the Welcome screen.
3. Read and accept the license.
   1. Read the End User License.
      
   2. Click the radio button to accept the license terms, and
      
   3. Click Next >.
4. In the Customer Information screen, type your full name in the User Name: box. If you wish, type your department or organization in the Organization box. Click Next >.
5. If the default folder for installing Odyssey is suitable, if the default folder for installing Odyssey is suitable, click Next >.
6. Now click Install to begin the Odyssey install. Click Allow if Vista asks you if it is OK to let the program run.
7. The next screen shows the progress of the install.
8. Leave Launch Odyssey Access Client Manager checked and click Finish to end in the Install Wizard.
9. We are not done with wizards yet; the Configure and Enable Odyssey Wizard opens now. If you don't see it, look on the status bar. Click Next > on the Welcome screen.
10. Type your UIC netid in the UIC Netid: box. Click Next >.
11. Click Finish to end the Configure and Enable Odyssey Wizard.
12. The Odyssey Client Access Manager will now open.
13. In Odyssey, open University of Illinois at Chicago Wireless <UIC-Wireless> Properties.
    1. Click Configuration on the left to open the configuration options.
    2. Click Networks.
    3. Click to highlight University of Illinois at Chicago Wireless <UIC-Wireless>.
    4. Click Properties.
    5. Click Non-broadcast, then click OK.

You are now done installing and configuring Odyssey.

You must restart your computer before Odyssey will work. This is just for the first time you use Odyssey.

Make sure your wireless adaptor is turned on before you start to use Odyssey.

After you reboot, Odyssey will ask you to enter your password.

1. Type your ACCC Common password.
2. Click OK.

When you are connected with Odyssey, both the Odyssey Client Access Manager and the Windows System Tray give you information on the status of the connection.

The Odyssey Client Access Manager

• There is connection information on the middle right.
• The status box at the bottom right says that the connection is strong (4 green bars), Odyssey is active (blue ship), and the connection is authenticated and encrypted (blue key).
• To close your connection, use the Odyssey system tray icon.
• For more information, see Installing and Using Odyssey for Windows.

The system tray when you are connected with Odyssey.

The 1st, 2nd, and 8th icon have to do with your wireless connection.

• Right-click on the first to open the Odyssey Client Access Manager. Right-click and Exit Odyssey to disconnect your wireless connection.
• The second shows the strength of the connection.
• Point to the 8th, the network icon, to see what network you are connected to. Disconnect on the Right-click menu will not disconnect your Odyssey connection.
• For more information, see Installing and Using Odyssey for Windows.

Your wireless laptop can be configured to print to the ACCC public computing lab printers. Print your jobs at any hour, day or night, pick up your output at your convenience by selecting the job(s) to be printed from a U-Print station in any public computing lab. This is the same printing system as is used with Res-Net in the dorms, and to use it, you will need to install the Res-Net Printing System client. See Res-Net Printing for links to pages with detailed instructions.

You can use Odyssey to connect to all the wireless and wired 802.1x networks you connect to. Instructions on setting up Odyssey to use with your home wireless network are on the following pages:

• Setting Odyssey For Windows Up for Other Networks
• Configuring Odyssey for Home Use