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  • Fabian 7:31 am on June 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: developer, ipad,   

    WANTED: iPhone/iPad Developer 

    We are currently looking for a new developer for our iPhone and iPad software projects. If you are interested in such a position and if you meet at least some of the following requirements, then please don’t hesitate to send me your application.
    You should…
    - have developed for MacOS or iOS before
    - have in-depth knowledge about Objective-C programming
    - be willing to work in a young team
    - be able to work independently on your own (sub-)project

    I am looking forward to your applications!

     

  • Fabian 5:51 pm on June 3, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: forum, homepage, , support, wiki   

    Better Support and Shimo 2.2.3 

    In the last weeks I got several emails from people complaining about the quality of support within the last months. I really want to apologize for this situation and I promise that we will improve our support heavily!
    As a first step we introduce a completely new support area for our users. You will find FAQs, discussions and email contacts in this area. The former support forum should be replaced and tremendously enhanced with this step.
    Please let me know what you think of the new support area and what we can improve even further. What do you think about a Wiki page, where people can explain how to setup Shimo in different situations?
    We are looking forward to your comments.

    BTW: There is an updated version of Shimo2 available: Version 2.2.3

     

  • Fabian 7:47 am on April 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , cisco, geotagr, hamachi, , kamusi, ,   

    Spring Status Update 

    It’s spring!
    I just want to let you all know that the development of Shimo is currently a little sluggish, because I started my new job as a PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University. Furthermore I added some cool new features to Shimo3, which do not work well yet. For example, Shimo3 will use Snow Leopard’s integrated support for CiscoVPN connections. Thus Shimo will work without any additional software on MacOS X 10.6!
    More news: For all the hamachi fans among you, I am planning to release a special application for VPN services like hamachi. This app will include support for contact lists, file sharing etc.
    GeoTagr will also receive an update very soon, which incorporates the new services in iPhone OS 4.0! For the iPhone I am going to release an enhanced version of Kamusi (probably with audio support) and there is another nice iPhone app in the pipeline :-)
    As you can easily see, I have a lot of plans for this year and I am sure that you will like all of them!

    Regarding the Shimo3 beta test: It has not started yet and currently all the people, who applied for it, will be in!

     

    • Nathan Shaw 10:16 am on June 3, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hi, some Cisco PIXs currently work with Shimo, but not with native Snow Leopard VPN client. Please don’t leave that functionality out of next version!

      • Michelle Gill 3:54 pm on July 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Thank you so much for the update and congrats on the PhD program. I can tell you from my days as a PhD student that you will be very busy. :)

        Exciting to hear about the new features. Not sure if you saw, but there is a new beta of Hamachi for Mac in the beta downloads section of the LogMeIn website. I hope you plan to include (or, rather update existing) support for Hamachi.

        Cheers!

  • Fabian 9:31 am on February 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , ,   

    Shimo3 Private Beta: Phase1 

    As the development of Shimo’s third incarnation is progressing rapidly, we come to a state where we need more people testing the current version. With Shimo3 there are a lot of new features, which need to work as smoothly as possible and therefore we would like to ask you to join our private beta phase1.
    To be part of this test period, please send in a short description of yourself. It would be nice to add the following information to your application:

    - Version of MacOS X
    - VPN protocol primarily used
    - Level of networking skills/knowledge
    - Previous beta tests

    The more information we have about you, the better we can find the perfect team for our beta test.

     

    • cheek 7:17 pm on February 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hello. I am currently running Mac OS X 10.6.2. I currently use the Cisco VPN Client v4.9.01.0180 to connect to three different sites via IPsec. I am a senior Unix system admin and support multiple clients remotely via VPN. I am very experienced with TCP/IP networking. I’ve only been a beta tester once in the past… with VMware’s Fusion product. I would be very interested in helping you test Shimo3. I have used Shimo v1.0.7 previously.

      Matthew Cheek
      matt.cheek@uxadm.com

    • dreinidaho 4:55 pm on February 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      - OS X Leopard 10.6.2
      - Cisco IPSEC VPN (via Snow Leopard Built-In IPSEC Client) & Cisco AnyConnect
      - CCIE Voice #23890 (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) :)

      I would love to beta Shimo 3.

    • xy22y 12:53 am on February 23, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      I’d love to help beta test. I assume you want information here, since you didn’t provide any other contact information in your post.

      1. 10.6.2, on an 8-core Mac Pro, and on a MacBook Pro.
      2. Cisco IPSEC (via Snow Leopard client, Shimo 2, VPN Tracker). Also use IPSEC to OpenBSD.
      3. Lots of networking experience / knowledge. I’ve written protocol stacks. I’ve administered lots.
      4. I’ve never betaed for you before.

    • z0mbix 1:03 pm on February 24, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      I’d love to help test. I’ve been running 2.x for a while, and while the OpenVPN and PPTP VPNs work great, I’ve never been able to move from IPSecuritas to Shimo for my IPsec VPNs. I am a systems & network admin looking after many Juniper IPsec, OpenVPN and PPTP devices.

      1. 10.6.2 on a MacBook
      2. Juniper based IPsec
      3. Not CCIE level, but pretty experienced
      4. I participated in the early Dropbox beta test, and one of the first linux client alpha testers

      Cheers z0mbix

    • jayhawkbabe 3:12 am on February 25, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      I just sent you an email, but decided I should post here. I have used Shimo for about 8 months now.

      1. 10.6.2 on MacBook Pro
      2. Cisco IPSEC
      3. No experience with Mac software development, but I used to compile my own Linux kernels
      4. Work with command line (scripts, python, software compilation) for my research (I am a biophysicist)
      5. Have been a beta tester for numerous Mac programs

      Michelle Gill
      michelle.lynn.gill [add the standard gmail domain to this]

    • jjlharrison 11:01 am on February 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hi,

      Looking forward to Shimo3! Been using Shimo for a couple of months after a friend told me about it. I’d love the ability to have multiple connections.

      1. 10.6.2
      2. PPTP and SSH Tunnels.
      3. Cisco Certified Computer Science Student and Networking Admin (& Java/PHP Developer).
      4. Early Dropbox Betas.

      Thanks,
      jjlharrison [at] gmail [dot] com

    • mkw 6:48 am on March 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Mac version: Leopard 10.5.8, going to be Snow Leopard
      VPN protocol: Cisco, SSH
      Worked with networks since 1996
      Beta tester: Outpost Security Suite

    • MacVador 6:02 pm on March 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hi Fabian,
      I would appreciate to participate in your Shimo3 Private Beta test. I currently run 10.6.2 64 bits on a Macbook Pro penryn. I normally use Cisco vpn but has i does not run in 64 bits, I fall back onto the client integrated in SL. Therefore, Shimo cannot handle that one for me :-o (
      I manage more than 200 machines on my working site and the whole network and backup structure even my official job is researcher in biotech. I think I have quite a good level of knowledge in network and I am in tight contact with very high level engineers: they manage the whole Strasburg University network…
      As previous beta tests, I have been involved in Encore (music sheet software) and a biotech software. I have done also some software French translation as iSoftphone, MDRP, etc…
      Best regards.

    • krumpt 5:14 pm on March 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      OSX 10.6.2
      PPTP, LT2P & OpenVPN
      High
      Many

    • nielsk 11:39 am on March 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      I’d like to participate in the Shimo 3 Beta-Test.

      Mac OS 10.6.2
      Cisco VPN, Hamachi
      I know usually how to fix my problems with networks
      Previous betas: a lot…and if there’s a cutting edge version of software available I usually run that instead of the stable one

    • qbp 5:02 pm on March 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hello, i am happy to become a beta tester of your program.

      - Version: MacOS X 10.6.2
      - VPN: openVPN
      - Working as (LInux-) Systemadministrator
      - Some Beta tests and development of the konversation, kde tools, and so on.

    • Aaron Bieber 9:37 pm on March 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      mmmm beta!

      - 10.6.2
      - OpenVPN and ssh tunnel
      - Advanced
      - Various projects.. Dropbox, lightroom.. few games.. SkyOS :P

    • Pagefault 6:13 pm on April 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hi, I also would like to be part of the beta test. Because I already found a lots of errors in 2.2.2 and would like to improve this tool.
      - 10.6.3
      - IPsec to Netgear UTM and Fritzbox 7270
      - IT-Professional
      - Many projects during the last 25 years

    • jayhawkbabe 3:43 pm on April 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hi!

      Any update on this? Even if not chosen for the beta test team, it would be nice to know (perhaps via another blog post or an update to this one) that beta testing has started.

      Thanks!

    • Patrick Savelberg 9:28 am on April 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hi, i would like to be a beta tester also :
      - running MacOs X 10.6.3
      - OSX VPN Servers / Draytak VPN Routers
      - IT-Professional
      - Betatestin for more software packaging the last 10 years

    • Felix Buenemann 12:23 pm on April 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hey, count me in on the beta, I’ve done debugging on Shimo before. Knowledge in IT and networking/routing aswell as sw dev and debugging.
      Currently using MacPro Octacore/16GB and 1st gen. MBP 17″/2GB both running SL 10.6.3. I’m using various VPN technologies: IPsec, OpenVPN, PPTP, CIsco IPsec, though for standard IPsec I’m currently using IPsecuritas, cause it doesn’t really work in Shimo 2.

    • Rob Record 1:19 pm on April 22, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      - 10.6.3
      - SSH Tunnel
      - Intermediate to high networking skills, very high general computing skills, intermediate to high programming skills
      - I’ve been a beta test for quite a few mac apps

    • Joshua Weinberg 1:38 pm on May 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hi, I’d like to join your private beta. I’m running snow leopard on the mac and I also run linux and windoows machines. I use VPN as a mode of encryption for all my day to day internet transactions. –Email, websurfing, etc…I do work as a internet application developer and have a reasonable high level understanding of network systems.

      Joshua

  • Fabian 5:07 pm on January 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: chungwasoft, website   

    ChungwaSoft 2010 

    The ChungwaSoft team wishes you all the best for the new year 2010. With the beginning of this year, we have something new for you: A completely redesigned website, which improves the overall structure of the whole ChungwaSoft information. We will keep the old websites http://www.shimoapp.com and http://www.geota.gr online for some weeks before we let them redirect to their corresponding microsites on ChungwaSoft.com
    As the new website introduces some new features like a blog on the main page and a support forum to make it easier for everybody looking for answers, there are probably some sections, which do not work properly yet. Please send me an email or write a comment somewhere to let us know what to fix… Thanks!

     

    • akatose 7:20 pm on January 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      In the support forums the code-tag seems to work only partially:
      Linebreaks work in preview view but not in discussion view.

    • apollo51 3:57 pm on January 25, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      I tried to contact using the contact form but didn’t get any response. I can’t use Shimo for Hamachi or OpenVPN; nothing’s working. Any support? I don’t dare to purchase since the demo doesn’t work at all. It feels like the whole application is broken. I’m using 10.6 on a MacBook Pro, Mac Pro and Mac mini; all fail.

  • Fabian 7:26 pm on August 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    Snow Leopard Compatibility 

    A lot of people approached me the last days asking whether Shimo and GeoTagr are Snow Leopard compatible. By now I can tell you that GeoTagr is completely 10.6 compatible and works absolutely flawlessly on my Snow Leopard machine. With Shimo it is a little more complicated as it depends heavily on some small helper applications, which run in the background to provide all those wonderful features…

    Unfortunately not all of those utilities work on Snow Leopard by now. Especially the tun/tap drivers are not 10.6 compatible and I am waiting for a freshly built version from Mattias Nissler, who is the lead developer behind the tun/tap drivers. As soon as I get my hands on those drivers, I will release an updated version of Shimo, which is then 10.6 “certified” :-)

    Stay tuned!

     

    • David Walthour 3:39 pm on August 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks for getting a beta out that is Snow Leopard compatible! FYI, while this beta works when booting with the 32-bit mode SL kernel, it fails for me when booting with the 64-bit mode kernel saying that there is an error loading the drivers. I don’t plan to boot under 64-bit mode on a regular basis so it doesn’t bother me, but I thought you would like to know.

    • Scott Roach 10:04 pm on August 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Just a heads up that Shimo seems to work just fine in Leopard. The Cisco VPN client needs to be running the most recent version, and if your VPN Server has Split DNS or Slit Tunneling enabled your DNS will be screwed up. This is a Cisco problem, not Shimo.

      Does anyone know if there are any plans to add support for the new built in Cisco Ipsec VPN client to be used as one of the options in Shimo? The shimo GUI is much better than the OS X VPN GUI!

    • Bob 4:50 am on September 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      The snow leopard vpn client listens to cisco’s policies, so it would be nice if shimo could save the password if the internal vpn client doesn’t want to and keeps prompting! and also reconnect on disconnects and increase the timeouts..

    • seb 10:03 pm on September 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Hey, thanks for making this great piece of software.

      i got a problem though. after a while (dunno how i can reproduce it yet) every openvpn connection i created is greyed out and only the last openvpn profile i used and my pptp connection that i created through the network settings work. cannot use my other profiles.
      the only way to resolv is is by deleting and reinstalling shimo. that kinda suxx.

    • rob 2:01 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Hi, I just want to say that Shimo supports 64 bit kernel (Snow Leopard):

      1. Unistalled my Cisco VPN client using terminal command:

      sudo /usr/local/bin/vpn_unistall

      2. Download 64 bit compatible tuntap

      http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tuntaposx/tuntap_20090913.tar.gz

      3. Doubleclick on tuntap_20090913.tar.gz and install it.
      4. Reboot
      5. Start Shimo
      6. In Preferences-Profile select Downarrow-Import Cisco Profile. Select the Cisco Profile to import. Often stored in /private/etc/opt/cisco-vpnclient/Profiles/
      7. After Import select the imported profile in list and select Edit
      8. Under tab Authentication enter the password (so you don’t have to enter it every time when connecting). Click OK
      9. Under Advanced-System I installed Shimo Components. I’m not shure if it was necessary.

      FYI: To allways boot Mac OS X 10.6 kernel into 64 bit, I use Macpilot where I can set that parameter.

      /rob

    • VumVedABure 6:40 pm on December 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I really enjoyed reading this post, keep up writing such exciting posts!!

    • ijones 4:00 pm on December 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I’m a registered user of Shimo 2.2.2, and it’s great tool, and took a great deal of pain out of using the Cisco VPN client. However, due to a large number of kernel panics with the Cisco VPN client (up to 3 per day) I migrated to Snow Leopard, and the VPN has worked fine and is stable. However, I would really like to be able to use the superior Shimo interface, and the automatic VPN reconnect feature. I’ve configured Shimo with vpnc with the same parameters as I entered for the Apple built-in client, and it gets as far as three dots, and Status: securing, but no further. I’ve looked at the logs, and the authentication seems to take place, I can see the version of the Cisco VPN concentrator, and the welcome message. Any ideas on what could be wrong? / Ian

  • Fabian 5:14 am on November 8, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

    Shimo Public Beta 

    No, this post is not about a public beta test of Shimo 3. I just want to offer those of you who are always eager to try out the latest version of Shimo the opportunity to do so…

    From now on you can always download the latest beta version from HERE

    Please let me know if you find any bugs or whenever you have a feature request. You can either just write a comment here on the developer blog or you use our ticket system.

     

    • aa 10:04 pm on July 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      When is Shimo 3 coming?

    • jayhawkbabe 7:03 pm on January 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      The link appears to be dead/empty. Does this mean there is no beta? Might be good to clarify.

  • Fabian 6:38 pm on August 25, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

    Ideas for Shimo 3 

    Shimo 2 becomes more and more stable the last days and with Hamachi I integrated another VPN protocol into Shimo’s feature stack. At the moment there is no VPN protocol out there (as far as I know) Shimo does not support with 2.0.6 – Great!

    At the moment the only real problem I see with Shimo 2 is the AnyConnect implementation. As I don’t have access to an AnyConnect account it is almost impossible to develop a working client for this new protocol. I already implemented the basic structure, but I don’t know exactly how the server and the client communicate with each other… if anybody has the possibility to provide an account then please let me know! :-)

    When AnyConnect works, there is no big new feature that will be added to version 2 of Shimo. The major goal is then to make it rock-stable and fast!
    The next big step in VPN connections on the Mac will then be Shimo 3. At the moment I have a very small list of new groundbreaking features Shimo 3 will have:

    • Leopard-only (Shimo 3 will use some of Leopard’s great new features and therefore I have to leave Tiger behind)
    • Concurrent Connections (this is a heavily demanded new feature and will blow everything away, because it will be easier than ever before to have multiple concurrent VPN connections of different protocols at the same time)

    Now it is your turn. Write into the comments the features you want to see in the next major release of the best VPN client of the world :-)

     

    • Ian Duff 10:00 pm on September 5, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Any thought of enabling connection to Check Point VPN terminators?

    • Fabian Jaeger 9:03 pm on September 8, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Hi Ian,
      are Checkpoint VPN connections supported by IPSecuritas? If yes, Shimo should also support them…

      Fabian

    • Geoffrey Hughes 12:10 pm on September 25, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      How about assignable keyboard shortcuts for profiles to connect/disconnect?

    • Stephan 8:39 pm on September 29, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Hi Fabian,

      first of all: thanks for creating Shimo, it’s awesome!

      How about assigning PPP connections to profiles? Is that even possible? I have an external 3G modem (USB Stick) and I’d like to have my OpenVPN connection enabled when a connection has been established via the vendor’s software (HUAWEI Mobile Connect).

    • Fabian Jaeger 3:57 am on October 6, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      What do you think about the possibility to group profiles and then establish connections for whole groups? Sounds good, doesn’t it?

    • Aaron 4:07 am on October 27, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Maybe location switching on disconnect?

    • Matt 7:23 pm on October 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      You already mentioned it, but I wanted to chime in – if Shimo supported concurrent connections, I would consider it to be perfect. The only reason I ever need to use anything else is when I’m forced to use VPN Tracker in order to connect simultaneously to multiple VPN endpoints. Shimo has progressed to be an awesome product, and I look forward to concurrent connections in 3.0. Hurry, hurry, hurry! ;)

    • Matthew Morris 12:36 am on October 31, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      IPSecuritas does support Checkpoints VPNs, Shimo does not (yet) seem to. Maybe you are using a different version of racoon?

    • David Walthour 8:27 pm on January 19, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Shimo seems like a great product. However, it seems to be lacking for me in one regard, which it so happens is the same missing feature in the Cisco VPN client, namely that it won’t make or maintain a connection via a tethered bluetooth mobile phone. VPN_Tracker 5.4 does do this, but it is way too pricy (and I won’t buy that product unless I am forced to). It seems like Shimo is pretty close, so I am going to purchase it today with the hope that it will support this feature in the future.

    • David Lewis 4:24 pm on April 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I’d like to see the ability to automatically disconnect the VPN when the machine goes to sleep. If it’s there now I can’t find it.

    • How to Get Six Pack Fast 2:56 pm on April 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      My friend on Facebook shared this link and I’m not dissapointed that I came to your blog.

    • Tony McDonough 6:40 pm on May 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Bought Shimo last night. Works to perfection. What would be pretty good is to be able to see the ‘hamachi list’ to see all the peers connected to the Hamachi Network you’ve joined. Great product! Cheers!

    • Brendon 9:03 pm on May 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Added support for Juniper SSLVPN.

    • Ralph 9:41 am on June 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I’m also looking for concurrent / multiple connections. I often have the requirement to VPN into my corporate network and then open a second tunnel into some intranet lab area. Is this something you consider for version 3?

      As for the AnyConnect account: I could possibly arrange something if this is still required.

    • Johnny 4:10 pm on August 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      You’d sell a boatload of Shimo 3 licenses if it supported 64bit kernel on Snow Leopard.
      I’d immediately buy it if it worked with my employer’s Cisco VPN and I did not have to use the Cisco kernel extension.

    • stens 5:13 pm on September 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks for a great utility. It has simplified my life greatly, as my wife and I easily connect to our Cisco VPN at work. I’ve used Shimo for years, and appreciate the simple interface and extremely easy setup. Shimo is very well done as is.

      That said, I like your attitude of striving for perfection. A disconnect on sleep feature, or a timer for automatically disconnecting in the Preferences would be useful for me (my wife never remembers to disconnect when done with the session). I have no concept of how difficult this would be to implement, so I’ll just blithely request it.

    • Tom 11:16 am on October 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Not only multiple concurrent VPNs, but also the ability to choose which network interface each VPN connection should use.

      It would also be nice if VPN connections showed up in the network preference pane as interfaces so that we could assign proxy information etc.

    • Benjamin 3:16 am on October 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I wrote on here before but it didn’t go through. Thanks for Shimo and here are the three requests:

      1) Back to my mac support
      2) Juniper SSL VPN support
      3) Alternate VPN driver support (Cisco kext crashes my computer)

    • MacMel 2:52 pm on October 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      This may be a bit pie-in-the-sky, but I’d love to have a way to assign individual applications to particular VPN connections. This would be particularly handy in combination with site-specific browsers for accessing particular databases, etc.

      Oh — and if anyone knows some (presumably cumbersome) way to do this now (with OpenVPN), I’m all ears!

    • uwe@kubosch.no 10:06 pm on December 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I second that concurrent connections is THE most important feature.

      The ability to disconnect the current VPN connection when connecting to another wireless network would be nice. I automatically connect to the vpn at work when I am at home. When opening my laptop at work, it connects to the work WIFI, and I would like for Shimo to disconnect the VPN. Also when I am on NO WIFI, only ethernet, I would like all VPN connections to disconnect.

      Is this possible?

    • jayhawkbabe 7:07 pm on January 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      There are two features I’d love to see in Shimo:
      1. Ability to import Cisco VPN connections directly from those setup within Snow Leopard, rather than having to install Cisco’s awful client just so Shimo can import the connection information.
      2. Option to reconnect to Back to My Mac upon disconnecting the VPN.

    • BA S 6:42 pm on January 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      It would be great to have AICCU support to have easy IPv6 connectivity on the Mac while traveling or on foreign networks.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AICCU
      http://www.sixxs.net/tools/aiccu/

    • harry2 1:44 am on February 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Find a way to send a license key after Purchase – not just confirm sending it after the purchase.

      It is frustrating, I am disappointed.
      Still get the message “Buy a License”

 
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