I need to help someone running Mac OS X (10.5.8) to create a VPN tunnel to my Cisco ASA5505 firewall in order to access some files that reside on my Windows network. In the past, I have only connected other Windows users using the Cisco VPN Client software. I did obtain the Mac version of the Cisco VPN software (Cisco AnyConnect, which uses SSL), but the user feels that it should not be necessary to install this software on her Mac in order to access the shared drive. I require VPN connections rather than poking a hole in the firewall for VNC, etc. Before I tell this user that my Cisco AnyConnect software.must. be installed, I wanted to see if there are other options, since I know very little about Mac OS X.
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I contacted Cisco, and they confirmed that other client software besides their own Cisco software can create VPN tunnels on this device, since VPN is built on an open standard like IPSec and SSL. However, they will not provide further details about non-Cisco software.
Does anyone know if Mac OS X comes with VPN tunneling software? What other VPN client software might be recommended for connecting a Mac to a Cisco firewall? Finally, once the VPN tunnel is established, does anyone know the best way to use Mac OS X to map the drive? As for 'mapping the drive', Mac OS X really doesn't have a concept of drive mapping. It will produce a network icon for any Windows share or subfolder of a Windows share depending on how you map it though. To connect to a Windows share, you would click 'Go' from the Finder menu and then 'Connect to server.'
To reach the dialogue box for the network client. From there, you can enter an SMB URL such as 'smb://servername/share/' to create a desktop icon for the share. If you want to create a desktop icon for a subfolder of the share, just add that to the URL ('smb://servername/share/f older1/') when you connect. To clarify, the PKG files.do. contain the Macintosh clients, but they are not the sort of PKG files that are used by the Macintosh Installer and will produce an error should you simply download and double-click on them on a Macintosh.
They are installed on the ASA 5505 using the 'svc image' command in webvpn configuration mode and are used by the ASA for automatic installation of the client via the VPN's web interface. The Windows and Linux AnyConnect VPN clients are also delivered in PKG format for this purpose.
Hi, yes, the cisco vpn client is not supported with the 64bit lion version anymore. I am using since the lion update now the Mac integrated VPN client (Network Preferences, +, VPN, Cisco IPSec, etc.) What is working fine when you want to change the DNS to the internal DNS manually on the Ethernet/Wi-Fi Interface (I did an App which is doing it automatically).
The newest version of the AnyConnect is supporting Lion. But I have no idea yet how to setup the Anyconnect for using IPsec. Maybe you have an idea? Regards Philipp. I have the same problem.
I can use Cisco VPN client for All but 'AuthType=3' profiles. The only workaround for me now is winxp in fusion.
There is a possibility to auth with the certificate, but I guess it's a different method. Is there any alternative client which supports AuthType=3 authentication?
Cuz built-in VPN client just does not work. Maybe Cisco will release 64bit IP Sec client for MAC As they did for Win64 bit. I cannot force all my customers to use anyconnect.
I have like 30 pcf profiles and 30% from that is AuthType=3.