Network-Manager and 9.04

[Res]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Mike McGinn wrote:

>
> On Friday 25 September 2009 17:16:41 Res wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Mike McGinn wrote:
>>
>> <snip - tl agreement>
>>
>>> NM can do none of those for me.
>>
>> But sadly wicd does not do VPN's, although this is planned for a future
>> release, its easy for techies to configure VPN, but when you have some
>> techno-clueless dummy staff using these things as well, its a pain, they
>> just want to point and click to login to VPN, they don't want to remember
>> to use terminal and call ppp or pon or whatever, although they use fedora
>> on laptops the same applies with ubuntu since some dual boot, and one or
>> two of us even quad boot (fedora/slackware/ubuntu/xp) ;)
>
> I use vpnc to connect to the VPN in our data center when I am not at work. It
> works very well. FWIW, NM would not handle the VPN for me either. It stank at
> entering global keys for our Cisco VPN. vpnc and wicd handle it very well.


Cool, we are still stuck with pptp at present since thats what was used 
prior to my arrival and the accounts staff need xp since their software 
wont run on linux (or emulators) I've got 90% of staff moved off m$ O.S's 
and products now (saving 6 figures in licences), but until the accounts 
software is changed (there is no *nix equivelant, even in non-free stuff)
thats the way it has to be, not to worry, it does the job and NM actually 
likes it :)


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Res

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