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billasia
Oct 14, 2009, 1:52:43 PM10/14/09
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can t get this program to work at all on my MacBook here in China.
Looks as if I paid $60 for nothing. Any tips? It doesn't show up in
the toolbar and when i click on connect in the program nothing
happens. Am assuming the Great Chinese Firewall is too clever for this
program and is effectively blocking it.
responses?
bill
Looks as if I paid $60 for nothing. Any tips? It doesn't show up in
the toolbar and when i click on connect in the program nothing
happens. Am assuming the Great Chinese Firewall is too clever for this
program and is effectively blocking it.
responses?
bill
jkbull...gmail.com
Oct 14, 2009, 2:26:52 PM10/14/09
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Try talking to whoever you paid $60 to. Tunnelblick is free.
Diego Rivera
Oct 14, 2009, 3:09:18 PM10/14/09
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MalcS
Oct 14, 2009, 9:16:36 PM10/14/09
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Hi,
I live in China, not far from Hong Kong and I have had no problem
using Tunnelblick at all on my Macbook. Works just fine with the free
VPN service I found. The Great Firewall (or DNS Spoofing) has no
effect on Tunnelblick, it would be your VPN provider that is getting
blocked.
On Oct 15, 3:09 am, Diego Rivera <diego.riv...@rbxglobal.com> wrote:
> While you're at it, if you send me $50 I can fix it for you...
> jkbull...gmail.com wrote:Try talking to whoever you paid $60 to. Tunnelblick is free. On Oct 14, 1:52 pm, billasia<billasia2...@gmail.com>wrote:can t get this program to work at all on my MacBook here in China. Looks as if I paid $60 for nothing. Any tips? It doesn't show up in the toolbar and when i click on connect in the program nothing happens. Am assuming the Great Chinese Firewall is too clever for this program and is effectively blocking it. responses? bill> Director / System Operations
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I live in China, not far from Hong Kong and I have had no problem
using Tunnelblick at all on my Macbook. Works just fine with the free
VPN service I found. The Great Firewall (or DNS Spoofing) has no
effect on Tunnelblick, it would be your VPN provider that is getting
blocked.
On Oct 15, 3:09 am, Diego Rivera <diego.riv...@rbxglobal.com> wrote:
> While you're at it, if you send me $50 I can fix it for you...
> Roundbox Global :enterprise : technology : genius
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> tel: +1 (404) 567-5000 ext. 2147 | cel: +(506) 8393-0772 | fax: +(506) 2258-3695
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bill powell
Oct 15, 2009, 5:59:32 AM10/15/09
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thanks for your response. When I try to drag the tunnelblick.dmg to my apps file in my macbook I get a message that says "the operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items."
I have NO idea what that's supposed to mean.
best
bill
jkbull...gmail.com
Oct 15, 2009, 6:42:55 AM10/15/09
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You should not drag Tunnelblick.dmg, you should drag Tunnelblick.app.
If that won't work, you need to download Tunnelblick.dmg again, from
http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/downloads/list
and then follow the instructions in "Using Tunnelblick" in the wiki at
http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/w/list
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If that won't work, you need to download Tunnelblick.dmg again, from
http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/downloads/list
and then follow the instructions in "Using Tunnelblick" in the wiki at
http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/w/list
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Swa Frantzen
Oct 15, 2009, 8:21:17 AM10/15/09
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You are not an admin of your mac ?
An admin account could install the software. But that's the easy part.
I'm not entirely sure tunnelblick will work at all for standard users.
Tunnelblick asks a few times to increase the privilege level on the
first few runs and non admins cant; do that AFAIK. So it might not
be possible at all to run it as a standard user without an admin doing
also doing what's needed during those first few runs for you as well.
SWA
An admin account could install the software. But that's the easy part.
I'm not entirely sure tunnelblick will work at all for standard users.
Tunnelblick asks a few times to increase the privilege level on the
first few runs and non admins cant; do that AFAIK. So it might not
be possible at all to run it as a standard user without an admin doing
also doing what's needed during those first few runs for you as well.
SWA
jkbull...gmail.com
Oct 15, 2009, 9:18:25 AM10/15/09
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You do need admin privileges to install and run Tunnelblick to get it
set up. After that, it can be run by a standard user.
But the installation and setup process just takes a couple minutes --
set up the configuration, certificate, and key files, start up
Tunnelblick and connect and disconnect with each configuration file,
then quit Tunnelblick, start it again, answer as you wish to the
questions about automatic updating, and then quit Tunnelblick.
After that, admin privileges are only required when Tunnelblick is
updated (which the user can refuse) or configuration files change.
(Reading Bill Powell's post, I think he copied Tunnelblick.app to
somewhere other than Applications, and ran it from there, which makes
modifications to components of the app. When he went to then move it
to Applications, it complained because those modified components may
only be moved by an admin, or with an admin authorizing the move.
Depending on the version of OS X, a standard user might be told he/she
doesn't have sufficient privileges, or might be given an option to
"authorize" the move by entering an admin's credentials.)
On Oct 15, 8:21 am, Swa Frantzen <swa.frant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are not an admin of your mac ?
>
> An admin account could install the software. But that's the easy part.
> I'm not entirely sure tunnelblick will work at all for standard users.
> Tunnelblick asks a few times to increase the privilege level on the
> first few runs and non admins cant; do that AFAIK. So it might not
> be possible at all to run it as a standard user without an admin doing
> also doing what's needed during those first few runs for you as well.
>
> SWA
>
> On 15 Oct 2009, at 11:59, bill powell wrote:
>
>
>
> > thanks for your response. When I try to drag the tunnelblick.dmg to
> > my apps file in my macbook I get a message that says "the operation
> > cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges
> > for some of the items."
> > I have NO idea what that's supposed to mean.
> > best
> > bill
>
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:16 PM, MalcS <malc.summer...@gmail.com>
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set up. After that, it can be run by a standard user.
But the installation and setup process just takes a couple minutes --
set up the configuration, certificate, and key files, start up
Tunnelblick and connect and disconnect with each configuration file,
then quit Tunnelblick, start it again, answer as you wish to the
questions about automatic updating, and then quit Tunnelblick.
After that, admin privileges are only required when Tunnelblick is
updated (which the user can refuse) or configuration files change.
(Reading Bill Powell's post, I think he copied Tunnelblick.app to
somewhere other than Applications, and ran it from there, which makes
modifications to components of the app. When he went to then move it
to Applications, it complained because those modified components may
only be moved by an admin, or with an admin authorizing the move.
Depending on the version of OS X, a standard user might be told he/she
doesn't have sufficient privileges, or might be given an option to
"authorize" the move by entering an admin's credentials.)
On Oct 15, 8:21 am, Swa Frantzen <swa.frant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are not an admin of your mac ?
>
> An admin account could install the software. But that's the easy part.
> I'm not entirely sure tunnelblick will work at all for standard users.
> Tunnelblick asks a few times to increase the privilege level on the
> first few runs and non admins cant; do that AFAIK. So it might not
> be possible at all to run it as a standard user without an admin doing
> also doing what's needed during those first few runs for you as well.
>
> SWA
>
> On 15 Oct 2009, at 11:59, bill powell wrote:
>
>
>
> > thanks for your response. When I try to drag the tunnelblick.dmg to
> > my apps file in my macbook I get a message that says "the operation
> > cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges
> > for some of the items."
> > I have NO idea what that's supposed to mean.
> > best
> > bill
>
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I live in China, not far from Hong Kong and I have had no problem
> > using Tunnelblick at all on my Macbook. Works just fine with the free
> > VPN service I found. The Great Firewall (or DNS Spoofing) has no
> > effect on Tunnelblick, it would be your VPN provider that is getting
> > blocked.
>
> > On Oct 15, 3:09 am, Diego Rivera <diego.riv...@rbxglobal.com> wrote:
> > > While you're at it, if you send me $50 I can fix it for you...
> > > jkbull...gmail.com wrote:Try talking to whoever you paid $60 to.
> > Tunnelblick is free. On Oct 14, 1:52 pm,
> > billasia<billasia2...@gmail.com>wrote:can t get this program to work
> > at all on my MacBook here in China. Looks as if I paid $60 for
> > nothing. Any tips? It doesn't show up in the toolbar and when i
> > click on connect in the program nothing happens. Am assuming the
> > Great Chinese Firewall is too clever for this program and is
> > effectively blocking it. responses? bill> Director / System
> > Operations
> > > Roundbox Global :enterprise : technology : genius
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
> > > Avenida 11 y Calle 7-9, Barrio Amón, San José, Costa Rica
> > > tel: +1 (404) 567-5000 ext. 2147 | cel: +(506) 8393-0772 | fax:
> > +(506) 2258-3695
> > > email:diego.riv...@rbxglobal.com|www.rbxglobal.com
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I live in China, not far from Hong Kong and I have had no problem
> > using Tunnelblick at all on my Macbook. Works just fine with the free
> > VPN service I found. The Great Firewall (or DNS Spoofing) has no
> > effect on Tunnelblick, it would be your VPN provider that is getting
> > blocked.
>
> > On Oct 15, 3:09 am, Diego Rivera <diego.riv...@rbxglobal.com> wrote:
> > > While you're at it, if you send me $50 I can fix it for you...
> > > jkbull...gmail.com wrote:Try talking to whoever you paid $60 to.
> > Tunnelblick is free. On Oct 14, 1:52 pm,
> > billasia<billasia2...@gmail.com>wrote:can t get this program to work
> > at all on my MacBook here in China. Looks as if I paid $60 for
> > nothing. Any tips? It doesn't show up in the toolbar and when i
> > click on connect in the program nothing happens. Am assuming the
> > Great Chinese Firewall is too clever for this program and is
> > effectively blocking it. responses? bill> Director / System
> > Operations
> > > Roundbox Global :enterprise : technology : genius
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
> > > Avenida 11 y Calle 7-9, Barrio Amón, San José, Costa Rica
> > > tel: +1 (404) 567-5000 ext. 2147 | cel: +(506) 8393-0772 | fax:
> > +(506) 2258-3695
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
>
> > > signature.asc
> > > < 1KViewDownload
bill powell
Oct 15, 2009, 10:11:33 AM10/15/09
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yeah, no a friend of mine in Beijing, also not an admin, is running this on his home computer with no problem so it should work here. still trying.
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