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sdcontre
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Jul 28, 2020
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Help setting up VPN service on iOS or MacOS. (RBK852)

Hello,   I'm trying to set up the VPN connection on iOS or MacOS to connect to my home network from a remote connection. I enabled the feature in the web controls and downloaded the prompted zip fo...
  • parisv's avatar
    parisv
    Aug 14, 2020

    I've just got this working.

     

    On the mac with your iphone plugged in, open finder and click on you phone on the left side.

     

    Then click files along the menu towards the right 

     

    then expand openvpn

     

    then open another finder window and go to your Downloads/smarthpone folder and drag all 4 files from it to openvpn (ignore the inbox) in the other finder window.

     

    then open openvpn on your phone and you should see it there to import.

sdcontre's avatar
sdcontre
Initiate
Jul 28, 2020

Added the files via Windows iTunes but profile won't connect. I feel like I'm missing a key step somewhere.

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parisv
Tutor
Aug 14, 2020

I've just got this working.

 

On the mac with your iphone plugged in, open finder and click on you phone on the left side.

 

Then click files along the menu towards the right 

 

then expand openvpn

 

then open another finder window and go to your Downloads/smarthpone folder and drag all 4 files from it to openvpn (ignore the inbox) in the other finder window.

 

then open openvpn on your phone and you should see it there to import.