I took advantage of the Black Friday offer yesterday. But now I’m a bit disappointed with ProtonVPN. I use ProtonVPN with a Mac with multiple users. The VPN does not work with multiple users at the same time. So if I am logged in with my own user and using the VPN, my wife cannot use same ProtonVPN with her own user. I am logged into the ProtonVPN app with my credentials. I understood that I can use 10 connections at the same time. It just doesn’t connect. Mullvad was system wide VPN, so when I have connected to Mullvad, every user on Mac used the same VPN.
Also no port forwarding on Mac or Linux CLI.
Came here looking for a solution to this. The VPN doesn’t stay active system wide because when I switch users it’s inactive and even though it doesn’t carry over to the other user, it won’t let a new connection take place. Would like to be able to switch users and have the same VPN connection stay active or be able to connect it on both. But it happens you have to close out the app on one user before you can use it on the other.
I also took advantage of the Black Friday deals, but I still have to install the app on my Mac. This is quite a bit disappointing.
How do you have one Mac with multiple user accounts using it at the same time?
The logic behind this is that the 10 connections are for the same user, not for multiple users/different accounts.
I’m guessing by just logging out and keeping the session active, while letting the other user log in from their own account, rather than fully disconnecting.
Well, no, I have the same issue with the second user having his own protonvpn account.
That makes sense, as the Computer is already
connected to a VPN server. You cannot connect twice from the same device, as the VPN connection is OS wide.
I was answering to the “argument” of alex_herrero. An OS wide connection would be great, it just seems that, unfortunately, protonvpn works differently.
Thats exactly what it is though, an OS wide connection (= 1 connection per OS. Thats the limititation of the OS though and not Proton VPN, as this is how VPN clients work.
Your use case could be solved with the Browser Extensions, atleast for browsers, when they are coming out
The problem is, with wireguard it’s not an os wide connection. The other user is not connected to the tunnel (irrespective of if the app is running on the second user).
The solution I have found is to connect the other user through openvpn. But that is a workaround I should not have to do when other providers seem to be able to use wireguard without bigger issues.
Also, fun fact: both users can have a wireguard connection if one connects to proton and the other to mullvad…
Regarding two WireGuard connections, most likely it is related to that here:
The misconception that WireGuard inevitably generates logs is probably based on the fact that, by default, it requires a static (and therefore identifiable) connection between the VPN app and the VPN server. To get around this, we hardcoded our apps to begin every WireGuard VPN connection using the same internal IP address (10.2.0.2).
https://protonvpn.com/support/wireguard-privacy/