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Check Point VPN Fails On Leopard

Mac OS X Leopard is a great new distro. But, if you expect to use Check Point VPN to connect to your office you’re pretty much screwed…for now. It appears that Check Point missed the boat ahead of the launch of what, by all accounts, is probably the slickest Mac OS offering ever. I reserve judgment as I have yet to upgrade.

That will be this weekend.

Now, from the Checkpoint support forums we see more of this problem as it develops.

Re: VPN-1 SecureClient and OS X Leopard
Posted: Oct 27, 2007 6:30 PM

I just upgraded to Leopard and the VPN client doesn’t work. I hope there is a fix for this soon. Here is my error log:

Oct 27 10:27:07 macbookpro com.apple.launchd[98] ([0x0-0x26026].SecureClient[301]): posix_spawnp(”/opt/CPsrsc-50/bin/SecureClient.app/Contents/MacOS/SecureClient”, …): Bad executable (or shared library)
Oct 27 10:27:07 macbookpro com.apple.launchd[98] ([0x0-0x26026].SecureClient[301]): Exited with exit code: 1

The response that was offered by a CP employee was this,

Re: VPN-1 SecureClient and OS X Leopard
Posted: Oct 27, 2007 9:12 PM

The current SecureClient build for OSX 10.4 does not support OSX 10.5.

More information regarding SecureClient EA and GA for OSX 10.5 will come soon.

OK so, we wait.

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    November 4, 2007 @ 10:13 pm

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