1. Download a suitable Mac OpenVPN installer: Staff/PhD (or) Students
[Important note for Staff/PhD: You’ll have to be on eduroam to download the installers, meaning you’ll have to download them when you are in campus]
2. When download is complete, double click on the .dmg VPN installer
3. Launch the Tunnelblick app, i.e., double click on the Tunnelblick icon
[Optional Note: For some users, there might be an issue trying to install Tunnelblick from certain locations. If this is the case, you’d be presented with a prompt that will, by default, move the setup to a more suitable location – you’d only have to enter your admin password to complete this action. If you then try to Install and Launch Tunnelblick, following steps 4 and 5 below, it should all work properly]
4. In the following prompt, click ‘Open’
5. In the following ‘Installation Succeeded’ prompt, click ‘Launch’
6. Depending upon your personal preference, choose one of the two options in the subsequent prompt about ‘New Features’
7. Again, in the following prompt, depending upon your personal perference, choose whether or not you’d like Tunnelblick to check for updates automatically
8. Navigate to the Tunnelblick icon on the Menu bar and click on it. Depending upon whether you are a Staff/PhD [or] Student [or] GP, you’ll have different options for OpenVPN profiles. E.g., Staff/PhD might have ‘Connect eecs-staff’ and ‘Connect eecs-staff-full’. Click on ‘Connect eecs-staff’. [Note for Staff/PhD: Use eecs-staff-full only if you are interested in using Central College Services]
9. Enter your EECS username and password in the following prompt
10. Once authentication succeeds, a notification will appear and you’ll be able to acces relevant College and e-learning resources via Tunnelblick