Configure VPN Profile Settings
You will need the credential files you were sent during your account registration.
This page only covers basic profile configuration via the Windows GUI. You will need to configure your client much differently; options include utilzing the
vpncmdtool, or running the Windows remote client management application via WINE. Please see the Linux VPN Settings page for more information on your options for configuration.
Your credentials were sent to you during registration in a 7-Zip archive.
Simply extract them to a location where you will remember them; you will be deleting them afterwards.
The archive contains 2 files:
VLU-<username>.p12- Your user credentials, including both public and private key.VirtuaLAN-SRV.crt- The public certificate for the VPN server, used to identify the VPN server being connected to.
Never send this file to anyone, even VirtuaLAN staff.
Keys are never manually requested on the server; keys for the network will be revoked by our own internal CA as necessary.If you ever lose this key or it is stolen or otherwise disseminated to a third party, report the incident to VirtuaLAN staff immediately for key revocation.
When you are done importing these files into SoftEther, you may delete the extracted files.
It is highly recommended you keep your original credentials archive in a safe place.
Open SoftEther VPN Client Manager, which will present you with the GUI.
Double-click on Add VPN Connection.
A dialog window will pop up.
We will need to alter a few things from their default, but not much.
Here is a (mostly) complete example of what your profile settings should look like.
Fill in your profile settings to match.
Be sure to double-check spelling and capitalization on applicable settings.
| Setting Name: | Whatever you’d like to name the profile. We recommend just “VirtuaLAN”. |
| Host Name: | vlsrv.kendallcon.com |
| Port Number: | 5555 |
| Disable NAT-T: | Unchecked |
| Virtual Hub Name: | VirtuaLAN (This is case-sensitive and must be spelled exactly as shown.) |
| Always Verify Server Certificate: | Checked |
| Auth Type: | Client Certificate Authentication |
| User Name: | Your VirtuaLAN username. |
Now we need to add the KendallCon VirtuaLAN-SRV CA certificate, so we know we’re talking to the real server every time we connect.
Click on the Add button to be shown the following prompt:
Click OK, then select the VirtuaLAN-SRV.crt file you received with your credentials.
The dialog should then look like this:
You can then click Close on the CA Certificate List dialog window.
Click on the Specify Client Certificate button.
A file prompt will open; navigate to where you extracted your credential files.
Select your VLU-<username>.p12 file, and then click Open.
This will load your credentials into your VPN profile.
Your final settings dialog should look something like the following:
Click OK to save and close. You’re now ready to connect.
You’ll now see your new profile listed in the VPN Client Manager.
You can right-click your profile and click Connect (as shown above) to connect to the network.
When connecting, you will briefly see the following window:
Followed (hopefully) by the following status screen indicating a successful connection to the network:
And that’s it! You’re now on the network, and can interact with the network just as you would any normal LAN connection.
You can close VPN Client Manager, and it will continue to live in your System Tray:
You can right-click the system tray icon for a quick-menu for VPN client functions, including connecting and disconnecting to your configured VPN profiles:
