Enter the Server Address: as shown, :10443, followed by your login name and password.ħ 11. Launching the client application opens the following window. By default a program link is created in Start->All Programs->Fortinet->FortiClient SSL VPN. Finally, it is requested that the system be restarted to complete the installation. After login you will see the initial web portal page, click on the Activate SSL-VPN Tunnel Mode link to begin installing the software.Ħ 8. You will be presented with the following form, login to proceed. Open a web browser session and connect to the following URL: please note that the current SSL cert is self signed, accept it to continue.
Installation of the FortiClient SSL VPN browser plug-in client 1.
To install either the browser plug-in or stand alone SSL VPN Client you must have administrator/root privileges on the client computer. Hopefully, future Fortinet firmware updates will resolve these issues. As of the time of this writing I have only had success using the browser plug-in though Windows using IE 6 or IE 7 and had no Mac platform available for testing. Currently supported browsers include: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (or later), Netscape Navigator 7.0 (or later), Mozilla Foundation/Firefox 1.5 (or later), or Apple Safari 1.3 (or later). You can establish a SSL VPN tunnel connection to MDS by either using the web browser plugin or by installing the stand alone client application both of which currently support: Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 or Vista (32 or 64-bit), MacOS X v10.3.9, v10.4 Tiger, v10.5 Leopard, or Linux Distributions RedHat/Fedora,Ubuntu/Debian, or Suse. To obtain a VPN account or to reset your password, please contact your systems administrator. 1 FortiClient SSL VPN Client User s Guide To connect to Model Driven Solutions via a SSL VPN Client session you first need a VPN login account that has been granted the proper SSL VPN group permissions and associated password.