Problems with VPN

[art]

Chris Jeffries wrote:
> (Please ignore the --- in the following message. They are there for a
> reason, but it is not for human perception purposes.)
> 
> I wonder if anyone has got V---P---N up and running on Ubuntu. If so,
> perhaps you could share your experience or point me somewhere where you
> already shared it, because I am struggling.

I have a dual-boot laptop running Vista and Ubuntu. I had the VPN up and 
running on the Vista side, courtesy of a standard packaged (by my 
company) Cisco client, including the pcf file required to make it work. 
I installed through the Ubuntu package manager "vpnc", and then "kvpnc". 
kvpnc showed up on the Applications>Internet menu, and had an option to 
import the Cisco pcf file that I already had working on the vista side 
of my laptop with the 5.0 Cisco client. So I imported, it offered to 
connect, and after telling it to use the correct domain (which it 
already had, just grayed out), it connected me right in. The telnet 
worked fine.  I've since switched. I installed "network-manager-vpnc", a 
vpnc plugin. It puts the vpn option right on the nm-applet as a 
drop-down menu option. It's very convenient that way. The only thing it 
didn't do that the kvpnc did is read the existing Vista-side profile 
record. I had to get the workgroup password from the network people to 
complete the setup, but now it works fine.
Art