Hello,

My employer had the good idea of setting up shared directories at the company's head office, on a NAS (Zyxel brand, apparently).

I have all the credentials for connecting to the VPN (SSL_VPN), then those for mounting the shared directory.

My problem is that I don't use Windows on my post (well, I do, but in dual boot), but I'd like to be able to do everything from Mint, without having to go through Windows.

I've tried installing the network-manager-fortisslvpn package, but it doesn't work. All I have is a login and password, and the server address is IP:4443.

No certificate has been provided, under windows (installing SSL_VPN_Client_4.0.4.0) on connection there's an error message and you realize that on the server side it's a self-signed certificate.... (LOL?)

Any idea how I can connect? No leads on the Zyxel forum, there's no linux support anyway.

Any ideas?

  • jmd_akbar@aussie.zone
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    10 months ago

    I know this is not exactly what you're looking for, but I found for a Fortinet ssl vpn connection.

    https://askubuntu.com/a/1338207

    It might work for you? Doesn't hurt to try...

    EDIT: Another thing you can try is the official OpenVPN client for linux...

    https://openvpn.net/community-resources/how-to/

    • wiltur@jlai.lu
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      10 months ago

      The problem is that I don't have a trusted certificate. So I can't use the first solution (which I've already tried, by the way).

      For the second solution, which I've also tried, I still have the problem of entering a certificate that I don't have. I've tried retrieving the self-signed certificate with Firefox, but the connection ends with a timeout...

      Anyway, thanks for trying to help.

      • jmd_akbar@aussie.zone
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        10 months ago

        Does curl support certificate downloads?

        Edit: try openssl if you have access to it...

        https://superuser.com/a/176721

        • wiltur@jlai.lu
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          10 months ago

          I got the certificat using firefox (export certificat), but it doesn't works. Always a timeout :/