Comments on: How to connect to a SoftEther VPN server from Mac

By: BORIS DONGMO

BORIS DONGMO — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:32:54 +0000

Bonjour, j’ai un macos Ventura 13.0.1

By: BORIS DONGMO

BORIS DONGMO — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:30:24 +0000

Bonjour, j’ai un macos Ventura 13.0.1, comment je peux proceder pour appliquer ma configuration softether ?

By: Naseer

Naseer — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 18:15:54 +0000

Hello Vid,

I am running Softhether VPN server on a Ubuntu machine and it works quite well when using a windows machine with Softether GUI client. I am able to connect to the VPN server and getting the IP address and have full access to the environment.
I have got a Mac with Ventura 13.1 and I am trying to connect to the same Softether Server using CLI based Softether Client. So far all efforts have failed.

I can’t even access the Softether main site to get to the reference documentation to come of this problem.

Is there any way out.

By: Eddy Grier

Eddy Grier — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 02:35:15 +0000

In reply to Vlad.

Hello. Sorry for the very late reply. I open it, it freezes for a minute then closes. I put it in the Applications folder like you said to someone else, and now I can open the thing before it freezes. So…yay?

This is what it gives me in Console
default 20:32:24.060289 -0600 launchservicesd CHECKIN:0x0-0x8de8de 58769 com.lastgrid.SoftEtherGUI
error 20:32:24.195497 -0600 SoftEtherGUI AEGetDescData of non-desc type ‘reco’ not a good idea
default 20:32:26.746345 -0600 authd Succeeded authorizing right ‘system.privilege.admin’ by client ‘/Applications/SoftEtherGUI.app’ [58769] for authorization created by ‘/Applications/SoftEtherGUI.app’ [58769] (13,0)
default 20:32:26.802784 -0600 authd Succeeded authorizing right ‘system.privilege.admin’ by client ‘/usr/libexec/security_authtrampoline’ [58775] for authorization created by ‘/Applications/SoftEtherGUI.app’ [58769] (3,0)
default 20:32:26.804128 -0600 security_authtrampoline executing /Applications/SoftEtherGUI.app/Contents/XPCServices/execHelper.xpc/Contents/MacOS/execHelper
default 20:32:34.077470 -0600 SoftEtherGUI LSExceptions shared instance invalidated for timeout.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:38:44 +0000

In reply to Pushkar. To be honest, there is not much you can do. The app stopped working for me completely. Probably due to the latest macOS updates. You should probably use another VPN protocol on Mac.

By: Pushkar

Pushkar — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:53:14 +0000

Hi Vlad. I had an issue using the Softether GUI app that you suggested. It didn’t work for me and I did have the “Failed to load tap kext” . When I entered the “kextstat | grep -v com.apple” command, there was nothing in the “Name (Version)” column. I even moved the application under the ‘Applications’ folder but that didn’t work. What should I do?

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:29:28 +0000

In reply to susanna. Susanna, you get the server credentials from the server administrator or the VPN service provider. The Softether VPN server can communicate using the L2TP/IPSec protocol, but some settings need to be done on the server-side.

By: susanna

susanna — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:40:40 +0000

Hello,

I am trying to go for option two, but where do i get

server address
password
shared code?

By: Vlad

Vlad — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:22:24 +0000

In reply to A.

Yes, you need to install the Softether VPN server on your Mac: http://www.softether-download.com/en.aspx

By: A

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 05:48:45 +0000

In reply to Vlad. Is there a way to use my mac as a server for someone to connect through me?