VPN with Lion not working?

I have tried pretty much every suggestion and still not working. Anyone got any luck with this issue?

I have go VPN in 10.7.4 working for a while check out these instructions here http://www.farawaymac.com/mac-server/tutorial-setup-vpn-in-lion-server/

just follow the directions exactaly and it works great.

Thanks, I saw that one. Unfortunately that tutorial requires to have dhcp, nat and everything else up.

Which I don't want to do as I have already some of those service working and configured in alternative ways.

That may pose a huge issue for you then. tyou may consider going back to 10.6.8 . I wonder if the bata for 10.8 has VPN like 10.6.8, somehow i doubt Apple would back track though. you could also use a third party VPN client.

http://www.farawaymac.com/mac-server/tutorial-setup-vpn-in-lion-server/

This is by far the worst implementation for a VPN service I have ever seen, especially in a medium to large business. You can leave Enterprise out at this point. I eventually purchased a MacMini runnig 10.7 and linked that to my OD Master as a replica. Employees can now VPN with out an issue. There is a cool tool I would HIGHLY suggest:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/admin-tool-vpn/id492248396?mt=12

You can create routing rules and so forth with ease!

Could not agree more on that, by far a piece of junk assembled as art.

Thanks for the tool, I will take a look

this may be off track for lots of you, but i was having issues connecting to a 10.6.8 served L2TP vpn with my recently upgraded 10.7 client.

it turns out that the practice of leaving the password field blank in the client VPN setup (which we did for 10.6.8 security) fails on 10.7.

pop the password into the authentication information during the VPN client setup and everything works fine.

L2TP is not the issue with 10.6 and 10.7 Server. PPTP is the issue as it needs to authenticate to the OD when the user logs in. L2TP uses a shared password that you type in and then there is a user authentication portion. I have not heard or personally had any issues with L2TP. I actually do not implement that type of VPN but each IT admin is different.

I had the same problem. 3 out of 6 machines that we upgraded at the office worked, and 3 didn't. Tried a clean install and all sorts of other things. It turned out there was some extra crud that IPSecuritas left on our machines from back in the day that conflicts with how the Lion VPN works.

Here are the steps that fixed it for me.... hopefully it helps someone else:

1. Download the latest IPSecuritas from here: http://www.lobotomo.com/products/IPSecuritas/
2. Run the uninstaller
3. Uncheck "Keep Connection Configurations"
4. Click "uninstall"

Apple has misrepresented the specifications for the APE, taking advantage of the enthusiastic and trusting consumer. VPN, even passthrough, is a nightmare. Buyer beware. Find a different AP router besides the APE.

Finally this solved my problem with IPSec VPN:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4139538?answerId=19040143022#19040143022

Yes, it did help someone else. A very frustrated someone else. I had tried the uninstall, and it wouldn't work. Unchecking the "do not remove the Configuration Files" did the trick. Thanks!

great!!!

it works perfekt for me.

all my vpn connections are working again now after the update to 10.8.1.

thanks a lot!🙂

thomas

Brilliant! My secret was 18 characters (for L2TP), and I shortened it to 10, and it worked great. Throwing me for a loop until I came across this thread.

I wish the OS X Server app would set a limit on secret length, or at least error if it is too long.

I reduced the shared secret lenght and it worked for me.

I was connecting to a mac osx server 10.6 from a client on 10.7.

It took me 3 hours!!

Thank you very much.