Juniper networks VPN

Although I had upgraded to Snow Leopard with Network Connect already installed and working in 10.5, I somehow managed to botch the changes recommended in this and other threads. I tried EVERYTHING described her (and more), but nothing seemed to work. Finally, I reinstalled my back-up of 10.5.x, then reinstalled 10.6. I had found out that the correct version of NC for me was 6.1.0 and I reapplied the two sudo commands right after installing 10.6, using the correct version number for NC and, voilá, it now works.

Apparently, something, somewhere got corrupted and no matter what I did, I had to go back to 10.5 before I was able to make this solution work. I hope this helps those who have not yet been successful with this fix.

Ziv, it will remove the 6.3.0 if the VPN server that your connecting to is different, but it should install or update with different versions. mine now shows 6.5.0.

if it is not doing that, then make sure you followed the 2 very important sudo steps in this thread.

this worked for me as well, but i also had to abandon attaching to the VPN through my web browser as i always had before and switch to launching Network Connect directly. anyone scratching their heads over mysterious java-related errors about certificates when trying to launch Network Connect from a browser might be able to save themselves some time by giving this a try.

The hosts look to have removed it, presumably as it was a direct link to an executable which could have (but likely didn't) harm your system.

I would suggest that you follow the instructions in this thread and do it manually. They're all there.

Hi all..

I have been having this problem and I am using version 6.0 of the client. The following fix seems to have worked for me:

Open terminal and type:

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/juniper/nc/[version number]/
sudo mkdir '/Applications/Network Connect.app/Contents/Frameworks'

I found this here:
http://www.thevagary.net/archives/2009/08/makenetwork_connect_work_ins.html

I tried the fix but I received the following error message:

mkdir: /Applications/Network: File exists
mkdir: Connect.app/Contents: No such file or directory

Any idea what I did wrong?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Sounds like you may have missed the quotes around the path in the command:

sudo mkdir '/Applications/Network Connect.app/Contents/Frameworks'


Those little quotes matter in this case since there is a space in the path.

Hello.

I also get the No such file or directory error - but I think it's because I don't actually use a program to connect to our work's VPN? I go to a website (using Safari only) and log in there. Ever since upgrading to Snow Leopard, I get the error about restarting the browser and can't connect which means I can't remote desktop into work.

Please help me not get fired.

Thanks!!

Here's what I got. Does this look right?

Last login: Sat Aug 29 13:43:14 on console
james-p-allen-jrs-macbook:~ Jim$ sudo -i
Password:
james-p-allen-jrs-macbook:~ root# ls /usr/local/juniper/nc/
6.4.0 install
james-p-allen-jrs-macbook:~ root# chmod 755 /usr/local/juniper/nc/6.4.0
james-p-allen-jrs-macbook:~ root# mkdir /Applications/Network Connect.app/Contents/Frameworks
mkdir: Connect.app/Contents: No such file or directory
james-p-allen-jrs-macbook:~ root#

Yup, the apostrophes worked. If I had turned to page two I would have seen the note about those.



Thank you very much to everyone who helped out! Very much appreciated!



Take care



Jim

Hi - I got the following pop up window when logging into Juniper Secure App Manager (reads - Could not launch. Please restart the web browser and try again.)

I've been trying to follow the steps in this post.

First, I don't know what version I have, the tech guy at work says it's: 6.2R3-1 (build 13687)
Assuming it's version 6.2.0?? They were not really sure...

Through terminal, I was only able to get through the first step and got the following unknown file message...

Last login: Sat Aug 29 22:34:09 on console
Macintosh:~ unitoro$ sudo -i
Password:
Macintosh:~ root# ls /usr/local/juniper/nc/
ls: /usr/local/juniper/nc/: No such file or directory
Macintosh:~ root#

Can someone help me?

Thanks
Maggi

I'm having the same problem as AppleTree...i.e. I don't even have the local directory under /usr. Network Connect doesn't even install from the website, I an error that it could not launch (right after the download occurs) and to restart my browser and retry again. In the logs I see this:

./../webserver/:213 (08/29 18:35:57.860)[ Thread-27] copy stream to new file [/Users/xxx/Library/Java/Extensions/libJNPRAuthKit.jnilib]
../../webserver/:102 (08/29 18:35:57.960)[ Thread-27] Attempting to authorize system.privilege.admin:/usr/bin/java:0
NCAppController.:000 (08/29 18:36:00.753)[ Thread-27] Could not launch.
Please restart the web browser and try again.
NCAppController.:000 (08/29 18:36:00.753)[ Thread-27] Starting quit sequence...
NCAppController.:000 (08/29 18:36:00.753)[ Thread-27] Cleaning up
NCAppInstallImpl:000 (08/29 18:36:00.796)[ Thread-27] Failed to execute the install helper: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/usr/local/juniper/nc/install/ncinstallhelper": error=2, No such file or directory
NCAppController.:000 (08/29 18:36:00.797)[ Thread-27] Failed to cleanup
NCAppController.:000 (08/29 18:36:00.797)[ Thread-27] doQuit trying to load /dana/home/index.cgi
NCAppController.:000 (08/29 18:36:00.797)[ Thread-27] Loading https://xxx.xxx.com/dana/home/index.cgi in current window

...for those of you that were able to get this to work, were you able to successfully install Network Connect from the browser first?

I am also running into this issue,

before the sudo workaround, i had tried to remove all Juniper references hoping a reinstall would fix, it made it worse. now i am getting the same issue as slash5234 and others.

I have created another thread for those of us with Network Connect not installing or reinstalling at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2136596

I've had the same problem-- the Terminal commands did fix it, but the Network Connect-init'ed VPN now seems quite slow and unstable, quitting and restarting frequently and making a noticable dent in download speed, which it did not use to. Anyone else w/ this problem? Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Hi Joebella
Well I am trying to login via safari into the secure application manager, and this runs via juniper. every time I log in it starts then gets stuck and says " could not launch. Please restart the web browser and try again." This of course is since I uprgraded to SL. I tried the steps the guys suggested in this Discussion Round, but I got stuck there as well. I alos downloaded the pkg. from a site suggested above which don't work either.
Through the terminal the files can not be detected...
Thanks for any help
Mike