Connecting to a VPN On Leopard

Hi, i am trying to connect to the VPN at my college. I have been granted access, and i have connected using the network section of system preferences. The connection seems to be fine, but i don't know where to access the files. It does appear to be connected though. Should there be a folder in the Finder or on the desktop? Or where else am i supposed to access the files?

There are instructions by the college, but only for PC, but it does say it will work with Mac OSX.

Please help!

Mike

Try connecting to the share by doing smb://machine name or ip address/share name under Finder > Go > Connecto to Server...

Hi, nope thats not working! Just getting an error. I know i need the user number and password that I use to log on at college, and i have put them in and it seems to have connected in the Network section of System Preferences, but I just can't find where to access the folder that i set the VPN up to access!!!

Mike

Are you getting prompted for a username/password when trying to connect to the share? The share is not going to magically show up because you have a VPN up.

Hi, yes it is, and then it says it cannot be mounted.

Mike

If you are getting prompted and supplying the correct username/password I am out of ideas. Sorry. Hopefully someone else will chime in.

Post the windows instructions here! (minus any sensitive information...)
Perhaps we can help you "translate" those into Mac terms...

Thanks for your help anyway!

And this is the instruction for windows in pdf. Also it talks about easydrive application, but this is a windows only thing i think (at least when i downloaded it it was a .exe). I don't think there is any sensitive information in there, as permission is required anway.


Mike

Man there is some serious Rube Goldberg going on there! I threw in the towel!

What happens when you do this?

Select "Finder > Go > Connect to Server" and then type in:
"smb://172.16.0.38"

Hi, that seems to work! It connects, I am not seeing the files I expected to, but I am talking to the college about which server I am supposed to connect to because there are different ones depending on your user number.

Pretty much working now though

Thanks for your help everyone.

Mike

you can also download Cisco VPN client
Cisco VPN Client - Download Free Software

I use it on my mac to connect to my college's network and its as easy as clicking one button

falcontook said:

you can also download Cisco VPN client
Cisco VPN Client - Download Free Software

I use it on my mac to connect to my college's network and its as easy as clicking one button

Click to expand...

That's true for colleges that use Cisco's routers, but if he can connect using the built-in VPN client, then they're using L2TP VPN...