Windows, Linux, Virtualisation, Unified Computing Cloud Offerings Design Engineer.

Last time we looked at deploying an OpenVPN server on pfSense.

This time, lets look at setting up our clients to access the VPN server.

Once installed, it can automatically create a Windows OpenVPN client installer to download, or it can generate configuration files for Android, Apple iOS, create Viscosity bundles for MAC OSX and others.

Click Add to add the profile, rename if needed, add a username and click Add.

How much did it cost Nothing, just a bit of time and patience.

Openvpn Client Password Based Authentication

The client also supports password based authentication methods as well.

Please make sure that you are running macOS 10.12(Sierra) or higher.

Please note that the client uses the default browser, and Safari is not supported (will show certificate warnings).

Click on the Viscosity image file (.dmg) in your browser or navigate to the Downloads folder.

However, if you need to use OpenVPN, depending on the type of VPN server you need to connect to ( OpenVPN Access Server or OpenVPN Community Edition server ), you have the following options.

Option 2: Install and configure Viscosity (commercial, but reasonably priced).

Option 3: If you try to connect to an OpenVPN server offered by a VPN provider you may use its VPN native app (if available).

However, on macOS, only a client application that is able to connect to an OpenVPN Access Server is provided.

Its level of security is provided by the 256-bit encryption and high-end ciphers.

OpenVPN Community Edition (CE) server is the well-known open-source project that is used by many servers all over the World and by many companies to offer reliable VPN connections to their employees and users.

Most of the VPN providers use OpenVPN on their servers as the primary connection protocol.

It includes OpenVPN commands for the OpenVPN server and certificates or credentials for user authentication.

However, you may create the OpenVPN file yourself and type in the required commands.

Tunnelblick installs all necessary drivers (TUNTAP) and binaries and it offers an easy-to-use GUI (graphical user interface) for the connection management.

Click on the Tunnelblick image file (.dmg) in your browser or navigate to the Downloads folder.

Double-click on the Tunnelblick.app icon.

You will be asked: Tunnelblick is an app downloaded from the Internet.

In order to have the Tunnelblick installed in the Applications folder, you will be asked to enter your Mac password.

Next, you will see a notification window: Installation succeeded.

Do you wish to launch Tunnelblick now (An administrator username and password will be required so Tunnelblick can be secured.).

Click the Launch button.

To proceed with the setup click on I have configuration files.

Openvpn Client How To Import Configuration

Further, you will see instructions on how to import configuration files: Drag and drop the.ovpn file you have prepared, to the Configurations tab on the Tunnelblick.

Next, select if you want the configuration profile installed for all users, or only for your current user.

If you dont know what to choose, then pick the Only Me option.

A warning message will show up about the comp-lzo deprecation.

You may safely check the Do not warn about this again and click OK.

If the file does not contain a certificate you will need to enter your user credentials (VPN username and password), check the Save in Keychain option, and click OK.

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