ECE VPN with Colubris- MAC OS X 10.5 Setup Instruction

You can use the ECE VPN from MacOS using your VPN login and password. Note that this is NOT your UTORid, your ECE linux password, nor your Samba password. THe VPN has separate logins and passwords. If you need a login on the ECE VPN, contact ECEHELP at ece.utoronto.ca with your name, status and supervisor and we will set one up for you.
  1. Download this file to a folder that you will remember the location
  2. Open a terminal window copy the downloaded file to the folder /etc/ppp/ by using the following command, "sudo cp --path to the downloaded file-- /etc/ppp/ip-up"
  3. Once the file is copied, perform "sudo chmod u+x /etc/ppp/ip-up"
  4. Click on "Apple button" and then go to "System Preferences"
  5. Select "Network"
  6. On the left panel, click on "+" sign
  7. Under Interface, press the pull down menu and select "VPN", change VPN Type as "PPTP" and then enter a name that you will remember for "Service Name"
  8. Under "Server Address", enter: "vpn-gw.ece.utoronto.ca"
  9. Under "Account Name", enter your ece vpn username
  10. Click on "Authentication Settings ..." and under "password", enter your ece vpn password
  11. Click on "Advanced ..." and under "Options" uncheck "Send all traffic over VPN connection"
  12. Now you may click on connect and connect to ece vpn