FeatureRequest: Sophos VPN - Support

I will add a feature request but it won't be in the next two weeks. We have many people on vacation or just coming back from vacation and we need to take care of the backlog.

np
as workaround we can use existing openvpn-entry

hi guys,

i actually forgot this feature-request - you too? ;-)

kind regards,
markus

Hello Markus,
It's still on my add-on todo list but we have some many features to do. I'm finishing the high DPI support and this was one was a huge project.

Regards

any update?

We haven't forgotten but we haven't started yet.

Hi David,

for Sophos-VPN-Support you only have to clone your OpenVPN-Plugin and rename it to Sophos-VPN.

The only difference is the client-installation-path.
for sophos i have to use: C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos SSL VPN Client\bin

I will ask hubert to do that. Thank you for the tip.

Regards

Hello together,
any update about Sophos VPN addon?
Regards
Eugen Hellhorn

Hello,

Sorry for the delay, I should be able to give you a preliminary version of the add-on for testing early next week.

Regards,

Hello,

Here is a preliminary version of the add-on. Could you try it out and give us some feedback before we publish it on our website? Thank you.

You can install it by dropping the DLL file in %LocalAppData%\Devolutions\RemoteDesktopManager

Regards,

my first test succeeded,
will test further connections

hi hubert,
connection seems to work as expected, but disconnect don't work anymore - with both ovpn and sophos,
the close-session-function of entry do not work.

close-session worked in earlier versions of ovpn-extension

Thanks Markus, we'll take a look at this for both add-ons.

Regards,

hi hubert,
i did a test,

with rdm 11.7.6.0 its working, starting with 12.x.x.x it dont work, so plugin might be ok

stop!
need to start with admin-rights ... sorry

Does it also work with Sophos VPN? I think there was an issue as far as closing goes with it (looking for the wrong executable). If you do encounter the issue closing Sophos, could you try the version I attached?

Regards,

you are right, it doesn't work,

i tried your last attached version and all works now as expected

thank you

We'll publish the add-on to our website soon since it seems to work well. Thanks for the feedback Markus.

Regards,

thx for your support

Hello,

sorry for the delay and thanks for dll.
Should it work with RDM Free too or is it only for Enterprise Edition?

I tried it with RDM Free 3.0.5.0 (copied dll in ..\AppData\Local\Devolutions\RemoteDesktopManagerFree) and VPN opens correct, but it don't close itself. It cannot also be closed with button "Close VPN" in RDM. The only way to close it ist Windows-restart?

Regards
Eugen Hellhorn

additional information...

1. Reboot PC
2. First time: VPN over Sophos VPN SSL VPN Client 2.1 --> OK
3. Close RDP, say Yes for closing VPN --> VPN is closed, all is alright, Connection is closed. Now please wait for 2 min... (to be sure all transactions are finished^^)
4. Second time: VPN over Sophos... --> OK
5. Close RDP, say Yes for closing VPN --> VPN is still opened. Connection is not closed. The only way to close VPN i found was to reboot PC...

So, please try it twice to see VPN still opened...

Hope it helps. Regards.
Eugen Hellhorn

Hello,

Unfortunately we can't test Sophos itself but we don't encounter this issue with OpenVPN which should work the same way. Did you make sure to download the version from our website rather than this thread? https://remotedesktopmanager.com/Home/AddOn#VpnAddOn_SophosVPN

Regards,

Hello,

I use folowing SophosVPNAddOn.dll (download from your answer 7 days ago) :
Fileversion: 1.0.0.0; ProductVersion: 1.0.0.0; Size: 243KB; Change-date: 13. Dec. 2016 09:13

I think it's the same dll, isn't it?

Unfortunately we have no customer with OpenVPN so I cannot test it with OpenVPN.

Regards,
Eugen Hellhorn

5 minutes ago I deinstalled Sophos AddOn, then reinstall it with AddOn-Manager in RDM and tried it out.
On the second attempt, the VPN connection is no longer closed.

Regards,
Eugen Hellhorn

hi eugen,

you can use openvpn connectiontype along with your sophos vpn - they share same tech.
just set openvpn path to sophos\bin-dir

it's important to hubert if it works then


regards markus

Hi Markus,

i did it so as you wrote...
VPN connection works, but it will not be closed.

But with this type of connection, I can see the symbol of Sophos (SysTray?), so I can close connection myself, manually.
It's better then the other way, so I will use it till update.^^

Regards,
Eugen Hellhorn

P. S. we have now 18:07 and I go home, so my next answer will be tomorrow :-)
Thanks for help and have a nice day!

Could you try running RDM as administrator and see if it changes anything? If this doesn't work the only thing I can see is that the name of the sophosvpn process is different than expected. It is looking for any process containing "openvpn" and tries to kill it to close the VPN. Could you make sure the name of the process contains "openvpn" and not something else?

Regards,

Hello Hubert,

it works! Running RDM as administrator lets both of connection types work: OpenVPN and Sophos VPN...
This tip I've read so often in this forum! I am ashamed that I forgot to try it out.

Conclusion:
It works both with already published version, Open VPN and Sophos VPN. RDM should only run as administrator.
Thank you all.

Regards,

Eugen Hellhorn

I'm glad to hear it works :) I should also have thought about this sooner. Thanks Markus for helping out too.

Regards,