Problems with VPN

[NoOp]

On 08/14/2008 07:28 AM, art wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

For pptp install network-mananger-pptp:

sudo apt-get install network-mananger-pptp

Note: 1) you must reboot after you install to get it to work - don't use
the '/etc/init.d/dbus restart' command mentioned in most web references
- using that can result in some odd problems with your current session,
2) you _must_ configure your network interface for "Enable Network
Roaming" in System|Administration|Network. The VPN configuration
selection will not show up on the NM-Applet otherwise... it's a bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/145107
[ cannot create VPN connection in case of manual configuration]

Bit dated but somewhat useful:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VPNClient
More useful:
http://www.debianadmin.com/ubuntu-networking-for-basic-and-advanced-users.html
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-diagnosis.phtml
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-ubuntu.phtml