Comments on: Snow Leopard and Cisco VPNs http://www.astrobetter.com/snow-leopard-and-cisco-vpns/ Tips and Tricks for Professional Astronomers Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:17:53 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: M-MML http://www.astrobetter.com/snow-leopard-and-cisco-vpns/comment-page-1/#comment-754 M-MML Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:19:37 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=1176#comment-754 We've been advised by IT that, while this is a lovely feature, it doesn't yet work, at least not in our environment. My personal experience agrees with this: I can set up the connection OK, but it freezes up and doesn't actually transmit data, while the old clunky Cisco app still works. Looking forward to 10.6.x where it actually works! We’ve been advised by IT that, while this is a lovely feature, it doesn’t yet work, at least not in our environment. My personal experience agrees with this: I can set up the connection OK, but it freezes up and doesn’t actually transmit data, while the old clunky Cisco app still works. Looking forward to 10.6.x where it actually works!

]]> By: Tom http://www.astrobetter.com/snow-leopard-and-cisco-vpns/comment-page-1/#comment-714 Tom Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:21:07 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=1176#comment-714 I couldn't get this to work on 10.6.1, and the preference panel actually says 'server will prompt for password' so at no point can you save the password to the keychain in the first place. Maybe this only works on 10.6.0? (which did allow the password to be saved, but just didn't work). I couldn’t get this to work on 10.6.1, and the preference panel actually says ’server will prompt for password’ so at no point can you save the password to the keychain in the first place. Maybe this only works on 10.6.0? (which did allow the password to be saved, but just didn’t work).

]]> By: Juan Cabanela http://www.astrobetter.com/snow-leopard-and-cisco-vpns/comment-page-1/#comment-712 Juan Cabanela Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:08:58 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=1176#comment-712 Actually, the problem with the VPN not accessing the Keychained password properly is a glitch that can be remedied. Check http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2009082703155512 In a nutshell, you need to add /usr/libexec/configd and add it to the IPSec XAuth keychain entry access control. Once that is done, you have VPN logins from the menubar without a password (A la Shimo). Actually, the problem with the VPN not accessing the Keychained password properly is a glitch that can be remedied.

Check http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2009082703155512

In a nutshell, you need to add /usr/libexec/configd and add it to the IPSec XAuth keychain entry access control. Once that is done, you have VPN logins from the menubar without a password (A la Shimo).

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