Switching Between Mac and Windows

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Contents 1 If you're Switching Platforms Permanently (Not sharing one account on both a Mac and a PC) 2 Otherwise 3 You have personalVPN-SSL for Mac OS X and wish to use your VPN account on your Windows PC 4 You have personalVPN-SSL for Windows and wish to use your VPN account on your Mac

If you're Switching Platforms Permanently (Not sharing one account on both a Mac and a PC)

If you're switching for good and not going back anytime soon, use our re-doer tool here This will invalidate your old openVPN/SSL files and build you a new personalVPN Installer supporting the platform of your choice (Mac or Windows). Again, this does cancel forever any previous installations so be sure.

Otherwise

You have personalVPN-SSL for Mac OS X and wish to use your VPN account on your Windows PC

1. Make certain you are running Windows with FULL Administrator Rights, not under a User account you created. This should be the case by default if you never created a User Account.
2. Download and install personalVPN-SSL software for Windows from here
3. Find your user security credentials.

   If using Tunnelblick

   Copy your security credentials (name.key & name.crt) on your Mac from the "openvpn" folder in your User Library located here: ~/Library/openvpn (double-click on your Macintosh HD -> Users -> home folder -> Library -> openvpn) to a CD, USB drive, or via some other method, to your PC.

   If using Viscosity

   Copy your security credentials (cert.crt & key.key) on your Mac from the "OpenVPN" folder in your User Library located here: ~/Library/Application Support/OpenVPN/1 (double-click on Macintosh HD -> Users -> home folder -> Library -> Application Support ->Viscosity -> OpenVPN -> 1) to a CD, USB drive, or via some other method, to your PC.

4. Place the files into your newly created WiTopia.Net config folder (step #1 should have created it) located at:

   C:\Program Files\WiTopia.Net\config (Do NOT change the location to another drive or folder)

5. From your Windows-based computer, use our configuration maker tool, found here to generate a Windows-compatible configuration file which you'll need to save to C:\Program Files\WiTopia.Net\config

   The goal is to have your files in this folder look like this

   ca.crt

   README

   personalVPN.ovpn (or similarly named)

   name.crt (or cert.crt)

   name.key (or key.key)

   If your files are named cert.crt and key.key, you will need to edit the personalVPN.ovpn config file and change the name.crt to cert.crt and the name.key to key.key

6. You should now be able to connect from Windows, although a restart never hurt anyone. If you run into problems and are running Vista, follow the steps in Q9 of our wiki FAQ.

You have personalVPN-SSL for Windows and wish to use your VPN account on your Mac

1. Download and install Tunnelblick from here
2. Copy your security credentials (ca.crt, name.key & name.crt) from C:\Program Files\WiTopia.Net\config on your Windows computer to a CD, USB drive, or via some other method to your Mac.
3. Place the files into the "openvpn" folder in your user Library folder located here: ~/Library/openvpn (double-click on Macintosh HD -> Users -> home folder -> Library -> openvpn).
4. From your Mac, use our configuration maker tool, found here to generate a Macintosh configuration file which you'll also need to save to ~/Library/openvpn

   The goal is to have your files in this folder look like this

   ca.crt

   personalVPN.conf (or similarly named)

   {name}.key

   {name}.crt

5. After you've completed the above, goto your Applications folder and double-click on the Tunnelblick application to start personalVPN. We also suggest reviewing the CONNECTING and TESTING sections of this wiki article for optimal performance.