Orbi 753 and Open VPN - has anyone managed to make this work for a mac laptop??

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@My Estub wrote:

I've been battling with the VPN server in the orbi for some time now. If I tether my mac laptop to my phone at home in the UK running on data I can connect via tunnelblick. If I'm on an external network I can't connect via tunnelblick. I have checked and the external networks do not share the same 192.168.1.xxx as the orbi network.

I have not been able to connect directly to VPN via Open VPN with either my phone or my iPad as every time I try to open the client.ovpn file downloaded from the "smartphone" button from the router both tell me they 'failed to parse profile: ca.crt, client cut, client.key".

 

I thought it's ok, I can still tether to my phone and connect to my home network with the mac laptop. I've recently arrived in the US and although I have a data plan and tunnelblick connects on the mac I can no longer access my home network.

 

Are netgear purposefully making this impossible and providing as little documentation as possible?

 

If anyone has any help or advice it will be much appreciated. 

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