SonicWall Mobile Connect

SonicWall Cloud

About this app

SonicWall Mobile Connect™ provides users full network-level access to corporate and academic resources over encrypted SSL VPN connections. The client provides anytime, anywhere access to critical applications such as email, virtual desktop sessions and other Android applications.

REQUIREMENTS:
SonicWall Mobile Connect requires Android 10 or higher. Mobile Connect is a free app, but requires a concurrent user license on one of the following SonicWall solutions in order to function properly:

• SonicWall firewall appliances including the TZ, NSA, E‐Class NSA, and SuperMassive Series running SonicOS 5.9 or higher.

• SonicWall Secure Mobile Access 100 Series / SRA appliances running 10.2 or higher.

• SonicWall Secure Mobile Access 1000 Series / E‐Class SRA appliances running 12.4 or higher.

For more information on SonicWall Next-Generation Firewall and SMA solutions, please visit www.sonicwall.com.

Ratings and reviews

There is a bug in this app. If using SonicWALL's SSL-VPN to connect to a small office network that does not have internal DNS, you must use WAN DNS addresses (such as 9.9.9.9, etc). However, when connected, the SSLVPN client in split tunnel mode, you cannot reach the WAN DNS addresses, which means when you're on the VPN, you get no internet. The problem specifically occurs on Mobile Connect for Android, not iOS or Windows. The only current workarounds are 1) Use tunnel all mode, which severely limits performance, or 2) Set up an internal DNS server, which is not always practical.

First Reviewed in early 2021! - I installed this on my Android phone quite some time ago. I used it to get and put files on my own home-office network, as well as my clients. If NetExtender works, so does this! I've even been able to print a document at my home office remotely! - Update- June 27, 2024 - Still working FLAWLESSLY! I can browse my network files remotely, and perform any function I can as when connected to my network at home (albeit, of course, limited by internet connection speed!)

For everyone having an issue with the app connecting and no traffic passing, there was a firmware update around April that removed compatibility for the Compression Control Protocol - which is the protocol that Android phones use for SSL VPNs. The most recent firmware version, 6.5.4.7-83n, includes a fix that re-enables this protocol. Once you install the firmware update, traffic should pass through the app again. Once I installed the firmware update, the app started working as expected.

What’s new

Mobile Connect 5.0.23 contains the following updates:
• Bug fixes

Please see the release notes on the SonicWall web site for more information.