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  • Fabian 9:31 am on February 13, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    Tags: Shimo Shimo3 Beta   

    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

      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

      - 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

      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

      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

      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

      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

      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

  • Fabian 5:07 pm on January 2, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    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

      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

      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 | Log in to leave a Comment  

    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

      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

      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

      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

      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

      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

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

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

      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 | Log in to leave a Comment  

    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

      When is Shimo 3 coming?

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

      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 | Log in to leave a Comment  

    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

      Any thought of enabling connection to Check Point VPN terminators?

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

      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

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

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

      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

      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

      Maybe location switching on disconnect?

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

      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

      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

      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

      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

      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

      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

      Added support for Juniper SSLVPN.

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

      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

      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

      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

      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

      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

      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

      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

      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

      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

      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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