Mac Vpn Client For Pptp
This guide is for setting up a PPTP VPN connection on OS X Yosemite (10.10) and below. Unfortunately, PPTP VPN is no longer supported on macOS Sierra (10.11) onwards, however you can still connect to our service by selecting the IKEv2 protocol instead following the instructions here: Apple macOS IKEv2 VPN Setup.
Make sure your Mac is connected to the internet and that you are able to browse the web. These instructions were written for Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10) but the steps should be the same for all versions of macOS.
While we recommend using our SSL Tunnelblick application as the first option to connect to our service on your Mac, there might be some cases where this might not work well on your network. In this case, you can try this alternative PPTP VPN connection, which is much easier to setup compared to the other protocols.
- This tutorial shows how to set up a PPTP VPN connection on Mac OS in 5 easy steps. Open System Preferences and click onto Network. Click the + button on the network connections pane. (VPN Password from Client Area Details) and click OK.
- FlowVPN provides VPN clients for macOS, iOS, Windows and Android – just download and click connect. Flow VPN PPTP Mac Client. FlowVPN Connect provides an alternative method of connecting to our services using the PPTP protocol. Connect to PPTP VPN services on macOS Sierra using this client.
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Make sure your system is connected to the internet
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Make sure your system is connected to the internet and that you are able to browse the web. To check your location, please go to our IP Info page, or alternatively go to our homepage and scroll down to this section:
This shows the IP Address and country that you are currently connecting from, in this example, the user is connecting from Singapore.
Getting Started
Open System Preferences and click on Network, click on the plus (+) button in the bottom left hand corner.
Choose VPN Type
You will be prompted to select the Interface and enter a Service Name.
Select VPN for the Interface and then PPTP for the VPN Type.
For the service name, you can enter anything you like, however, we suggest you keep it simple and choose MPN GBR for the U.K service or something similar for whichever country you are connecting to. Alternatively, you can simply call it My Private Network.
Once you’re done, click on Create, and Apply.
PPTP Connection Configuration
You will now have to enter the server address. If you are connecting to our United Kingdom servers, enter gbr.mypn.co, for all other countries, please refer to our FAQ below:
Which Countries Can I Connect To?
Note: If you wish to use our Free service, the servername that you need to use is fre.mypn.co and your connection will be rotated between different countries we have in our Free VPN cluster.
For the Account Name, enter your My Private Network Username that you registered with:
Note: Make sure the Show VPN status is menu bar is checked
VPN Authentication Settings
Click on Authentication Settings and enter your My Private Network Password in the Password field, click OK.
Click on the Advanced tab and make sure that Send all traffic over VPN connection is checked. Click on OK and click on Apply. You may now close the network window.
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Enabling VPN Connection
Click on the VPN icon in the status bar and click Connect My Private Network (this assumes you called the connection My Private Network).
The icon will show that it is connecting and once connected the timer will be displayed to the right of the icon.
You are now connected
If you now check your IP address again from the IP Info page, your location should show that you are now in the U.K (or which ever country you have connected to).
Note, the server IP address and country name will vary depending on the server or country you are connected to.
Any problems?
Unfortunately it doesn’t always go to plan!
If you have any problems or can’t get connected, please email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. We’ll get back to you as soon as possible and try to help.
Apple has removed PPTP VPN support in Sierra due to security concerns. See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206844
Unfortunately, I need to connect to an organisation that only supports PPTP (not my decision).
I know about Shimo, but it's $50 and has a lot of features I don't need.
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I was hoping to find a free or open source solution? A command-line-only option would be fine for macOS.
I'm even open to more esoteric solutions (e.g. a lightweight linux VM that connects to the VPN, and then shares the connection with host OS, but not sure how feasible this would be or how to do it).
Edit: I see the command-line tool pppd is still present in macOS Sierra, so perhaps it's possible to call this directly?
Edit 2: I tried following this tutorial with an options file from the ArchWiki, and a custom route in /etc/ppp/ip-up, but it gives an error (publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!) when I try to run the pppd command, the pppd daemon doesn't seem to be running, and the ppp0 interface isn't showing up in ifconfig. I don't know much about networks and network interfaces, so I'm finding this very confusing! Any help would be much appreciated.
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The FlowVPN client is free (and works with any provider).
It supports PPTP and OpenVPN on macOS Sierra and High Sierra:
Just overwrite the FlowVPN server address with any server and it connects.
Just paid $55 for Shimo 4. It works. A google search for Shimo 4 VPN will guide your to the correct link. It supports PPTP, L2TP, OpenVPN, SSH, and a few more. I even found I can connect to some L2TP server with Shimo while I cannot connect with the built-in OS X VPN client. The price is a bit expensive, but it works pretty well for me, so I paid for it. I guess they might have some sales boost as the new OS X rolled out.
I found this when searching for how to fix a error I was getting in Shimo when trying to connect to PPTP VPN. I didn't get many helpful search results so even though this doesn't answer the original question, others might land here looking for help for this error:
LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
I'm running a trial of Shimo on OS X 10.12 (Sierra) and the VPN server is on Windows 2012 R2.
I also posted this answer on another question because it helped me work out the solution. A recommendation posted by @wgui was to use the 'silent' option which didn't work but the description given for 'silent' lead me to figuring it out.
The fix for me was to use the 'passive' option. In Shimo, it can be enabled in the 'Expert' section. You should see it as one of the choices given when you add a parameter key (just leave the value blank). Once it was set my connection worked fine.
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VPN Tracker also supports PPTP it's not free but presumed to be the most professional VPN Software for the Mac. PPTP connections are automatically imported into VPN Tracker if launched on El Capitan prior to the upgrade and if the connection fails, there is a professional support team. Yes it's a paid product.
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