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FVS336Gv3 PPTP VPN for macOS Sierra
Hi Netgear community,
One of our sites has a NETGEAR ProSafe™ Gigabit Dual WAN SSL VPN Firewall FVS336Gv3 which has PPTP Server enabled and setup with working users for Windows OS, there is 1 user that uses MAC OS. Since that 1 user upgraded their macOS to Sierra the option for PPTP has been removed (Apple reports the reason is for security). I have tried enabling SSLVPN in the firewall but have struggled to get that working. As a fallback, we are looking at 3rd party clients that can create the VPN using PPTP again. I've looked at some suggested clients (FlowVPN, VPN Tracker, user is trying TunnelBlick) but not getting very far. Ideally, we want a freeware that can do PPTP (unless there is a free SSLVPN option). Any suggestions or if you have got around this issue with macOS Sierra.
Many thanks in advance.
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Hi sedcom_pm,
Welcome to our community!
Apple already dropped the support on PPTP, I don't think that if we run any PPTP 3rd party client it would still work. I may advise you to please try to give a call on apple support just to make sure what 3rd party application are we going to use that will work on your MAC OS Sierra.
Regards,
Hi JohnCarloV,
My user tried FlowVPN and that did not work (with PPTP), the user reports that it disconnects automatically.
Do you have any instructions/step-by-step guide in setting up the SSL VPN for a user (who will be using a Mac), and also what client he needs to use on the Mac to make the SSL VPN connection. The Mac Clients are all asking for a certificate from the host server (The Netgear FVS336Gv3 in this case) but I am unable to generate one.
Thanks in advance.
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