SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPN

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SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPN

Hi - has anyone been able to setup and use SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPN on iPad to connect to and sync emails, calendar, tasks etc?

iPad, iOS 4

Posted on Dec 17, 2010 2:19 PM

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Jan 11, 2011 6:21 AM in response to Mark975Scott

To my knowledge SonicWALL has not created an SSL VPN client for iOS. If you want to use L2TP with SonicWALL there are instructions here: http://www.enterpriseios.com/wiki/SonicWALL_VPN

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Brad_M

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Feb 3, 2011 1:39 PM in response to Mark975Scott

I'm not 100% sure about the aventail line but the SonicWall TZ series and NSA series have native support L2TP which will work for IOS devices and the native VPN on Snow Leopard. If you haven't upgraded to the latest firmware you might want to do so and poke around to see if you can enable it or not on that device. Sonicwall doesn't always advertise the L2TP abilities of it's devices I had to call into the sales engineer to find out about the TZ's.

My Sonicwall sales rep also said they do have a IOS app for SSL VPN but it is currently still in the app store evaluation process, hopefully it will be released soon once all the i's are dotted and t's crossed. 🙂

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iMigo

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Jul 12, 2011 2:48 PM in response to Brad_M

Hi Brad_m!

Do you have any news regarding the sonicwall (Aventail) VPN iOS client?

Thanks

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Jan 5, 2012 7:28 AM in response to Mark975Scott

Take a look at this:

SonicWALL Mobile Connect

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sonicwall-mobile-connect/id466931806/?mt=8

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Gold469

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Jan 19, 2012 7:08 AM in response to johnb0002002

Just bought this and can't get it to connect. I have a laptop that is connected to the VPN but this utility does not seem to want to connect.

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iMigo

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Jan 19, 2012 1:02 PM in response to Gold469

The same situation. On laptop connection is ok, but from iPhone could not connect to server.

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Apr 26, 2012 3:12 PM in response to Mark975Scott

The SonicWall Mobile Connect app for ios works great to get you connected to the network at the office. To make it work, your SSL vpn needs to be working on standard ports.

Once in, you will not be able to browse the network servers, as IOS does not have a file system, per se, and so does not have a way to acess files on itself or other devices.

You will be able to RDP to a server or desktop, access mail systems which cannot be accessed on the internet, or browse websites that are only internal to the company, and are not published on the internet.

Typically, you will not need the VPN client to connect to mail servers, if the Exchange server or Pop server is published on the internet. Just connect to it there with the mail app.

The easiest way to browse files is within an RDP or VNC session. Once you find the file you need, you can copy it to drop box on the remote server, and then access it on your ipad from dropbox.

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