Tunnelblick vpn setup

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Chat with us! If you are reinstalling, upgrading, or downgrading Tunnelblick, the window will show the version number of the current copy and of the new copy. The current copy of Tunnelblick will be put in the Trash before it is replaced.

The name and password of a computer administrator is needed to install Tunnelblick. Tunnelblick's imbedded OpenVPN needs root privileges because it needs to modify network settings by configuring new network devices, changing routes, and adding and removing nameservers. Because we don't want you to enter your administrator account name and password every time you start a VPN connection, Tunnelblick installs a program that allows it to start a VPN connection with super user rights.

Tunnelblick uses your administrator account name and password so it can install this program. Tunnelblick also secures itself from being modified.

Click the "OK" button to install Tunnelblick to your hard drive. Conversion of OpenVPN configurations to Tunnelblick VPN Configurations, if requested, will be done before the installation so that if they fail the installation will not take place and any existing Tunnelblick installation will not be changed. After the conversion and installation is complete it should take only a couple of seconds to install Tunnelblick, but if conversions are done they can take tens of seconds , a new window will appear.

Note: Connections set to "automatically start when computer starts" will not be closed and may interfere with the installation. You must close them manually. After all connections are closed and Tunnelblick has quit, the installation will proceed.

When there are no configurations which is usually the case for a new installation of Tunnelblick , the configuration helper will appear:. Click the appropriate button and the configuration helper will guide you through the installation of configurations.

For more details on installing configurations, see Downloading and Installing Configurations. To launch Tunnelblick after setting up configuration and other files, double-click Tunnelblick in the Applications folder. If Tunnelblick is running when you log out, shut down, or restart your computer, it will be launched automatically when you log in. It will also be launched automatically if any VPNs are active when you log in. Otherwise you will have to launch it manually when you need it.

You can then delete the original. Changes take effect as soon as the file is saved in TextEdit. Note that this does not modify your original. You can't change the contents of an installed OpenVPN configuration file that is installed as a Shared configuration. You can convert it to be a Private configuration, edit it, and then change it back to be Shared.

The files that should be contained in a Tunnelblick VPN Configuration the "files related to the connection" above should all be "plain text" files:.

This is the situation for most users. If you are using manual settings, different versions of macOS behave differently. This is due to a change in network behavior in Snow Leopard and is beyond the scope of this project to fix. If you're using Leopard OS X However, your manual settings will always take precedence over any VPN server-supplied settings. If "Do not set nameserver" is selected, you will continue to use only your manually-configured settings and any VPN server-supplied settings will be ignored.

If you set your DNS servers manually, then regardless of the state of "Set nameserver", your manual DNS servers, Search Domains, and WINS servers will always be the only ones used unless you set the configuration to "Allow changes to manually-set network settings". Each of these settings is independent of the others: if "Set nameserver" is selected, those settings not configured manually will be replaced by the settings obtained from the VPN server.

If your situation is not described above e. When using "Set nameserver" or your own down script for OpenVPN, it is usually necessary to avoid using the OpenVPN "user" and "group" options in the configuration file. These options cause OpenVPN to drop root privileges and take the privileges of the specified user and group usually, "nobody".