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Connect via VPN on Android

Android systems are not officially supported by OTH. Therefore this wiki page is just support for self-help. If you have issues you will only receive conditional support from the data center service team at OTH.
This wiki page was created using Android 8.0 Oreo and FortiClient 5.4.2.0168 for Android.

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Install FortiClient on Android

  1. Open Play Store on your Android smartphone.
  2. Install the FortiClient VPN app by Fortinet
  3. Open FortiClient VPN app and confirm the required permissions.
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  4. Enter a name for the VPN connection (e.g. OTH Regensburg), choose SSL VPN as VPN Type and click on Create
  5. Enter “https://sslvpn.oth-regensburg.de/vpn-default” (without “”) for Server. For username enter your personal NDS-identifier following the schema abc12345. Click “Back” to save the configuration.
  6. Click on Connect to establish a connnection to the VPN server. Enter your personal password and confirm the note about the VPN symbol in your status bar with “Ok”. Subsequently the VPN connection will be established.
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  7. After the VPN connection has been successfully established, some information like session duration, external and internal IP address will be displayed.

Troubleshooting - Known issues

I could not establish a connection

Please not that it is not possible to establish a connection whilst being connected to the WiFi network of OTH (this includes both “Eduroam” as well as “secure.hs-regensburg.de”) as you then already are connected to the university network. Thus a VPN connnection is not necessary anyway.

If you encounter connection issues, please check the following.

  • Do you have a sufficiently fast internet connection? Using mobile data 3G should be available; slower connections like EDGE could potentially be too slow.
  • Are the configuration parameters correct? Please check with a click on “Settings” within the FortiClient app whether server and username are correct
  • Are there updates for the FortiClient app available? In case the most recent version of the FortiClient app is not installed, there could potentially be compatability issues with the VPN-Gateway.
  • Restart your smartphone

Instructions for other operating systems