Download Forticlient Vpn Client
Hennie Jaffe
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Hi Harry - I also have a very similar (almost exact) issue as what you are describing. Site A, B, C are setup as a Hub/Spoke VPN configuration (I believe) - Site-A being the Hub and Site B & C are the Spokes. FortiClients remote into Site-A. These FortiClients can access resources (Servers) in Site-A as well as Site-B, however, they can NOT currently access the resources in Site-C. So, what you are trying to do, is done in this network. However, I need to also have these users be able to access the Server in Site-C. This issue only occurs with my Remote (FortiClient) users. The local users (on the LAN segment) at Site-A and Site-B can access the Server in Site-C.
I am currently, trying to figure this out for my client as well. I am currently trying to understand the behavior when the FortiClient remotes into each site, before I take any action. The FortiClients are on a different IP subnet (ex: 172.16.x.y/24) from the Internal/LAN employees (192.168.x.y/24) , so I will need to debug on how the "good" case works (find out which policies are being used) and apply similar policies/routes at Site-C and Site-A... at least this is my approach to finding out how it works between Site-A and Site-B. I will continue to monitor and post if I find anything. Good luck.
Hi sw2090 - Thanks for your insight on this issue. I have reviewed my configuration and I believe you are correct regarding a return route back to the Remote VPN subnet. I have identified that I don't have a static route at site-C, so I will implement that tonight or tomorrow and post the results. Again thanks!
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OK I admit it, I am a noob here :) Any idea how I can get the "full client"? Specifically I'm trying to use the "always connected" setting so the client auto-reconnects. I initially downloaded the client from the public web, but found that was showing the free client warning. I then went to the support portal and downloaded it from there, and reinstalled, but I am still getting the warning. Is that possibly a remnant of my previous install, or is there really some other process to get the full client?
thanks for the last few updates. But let me reiterate a few important points - I don't control the vpn and have just been given credentials (and am unlikely to be given any more assistance as we're helping remove one of their clients from their environment); I don't have access to their EMS even if they have one; I only want to be able to save the VPN credentials and use "always up" capability, but the VPN client says "this feature is unavailable in free versions of FortiClient. You can upgrade to the full version of FortiClient to access this feature".
I have installed the "VPN" item from the support.fortinet.com portal, but either that was tainted from my initial install from the public download page, or it's not the "full version" I think we were expecting.... The file list, besides the release notes, are:
@sw2090, so are you expecting that there is a setting in there that I can manually adjust? Or a setting I can add to make it work? If so, do you have any thoughts on what they are?? There is nothing obvious in there from my searching of an exported backup of the config; I can see the UI has the Show AlwaysUp option set to 1, and in the user config section for my specific saved connection state I can see the following entry is set to 1 (but that still doesn't make the connection reconnect when it drops)
I can also see two encrypted data fields which I assume are the user ID and the password. I assume though, that the key part of those config options is the "show" part, the UI reads those and displays the option...
Just to be clear: I can see (and have always been able to do so) the checkbox that says save the password, and the checkbox that says "Always Up" in the UI. When I check the Always Up checkbox, I am presented with the "nice try, but this version doesn't do that" message above.... What I think I need is to get the correct bits installed, so that I can set that option and have the client re-open the VPN if it drops.
We had a PC with a working Forticlient setup that recently stopped working. It gets stuck at 40% with the error "The server you want to connect to request identification, please chose a certificate and try again (-5)." I've read all over the forum and I've already tried:
The same credentials work on other PCs so the issue seems to be on one PC (have a second PC with similar symptoms but haven't triaged that one yet). From the "bad" PC, we've tried accessing multiple gateways, all get the same error. So there seems to be something awry with this PC. As far as I know we don't use any certificates, at least nothing didn't come preinstalled. It is possible when the problem first showed up that there was a popup window and we hit accidentally hit "no" on the certificate authorization, but I would have figured a clean uninstall / reinstall would have cleared that flag. It is almost like this PC corrupted itself in a way a fresh install didn't fix.
This is no solution to the actual issue, untrusted cert, but it should allow you to connect.
Bear in mind that FOS 7.0.2 has now ACME certificate support. You can request a certificate signed by Let's Encrypt and use it for VPN access and avoid these errors.
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