[Bug 259168] Re: Network Manager unable to connect to PPTP VPN (bad NT-Domain escaping)

[William Loucks]

Regarding refuse-eap: As I stated 2008-11-04 , the manual workaround of
using your favorite text editor to add "refuse-eap" to the file
~/.gconf/system/networking/connections/n/vpn/%gconf.xml  works for me
(makes me able to establish the vpn). (As an aside, gconf-editor can be
used, instead of a text editor, to add the refuse-eap.) I am very
grateful to the author of the patch which adds refuse-eap as a
configurable item in the gui (but then again, the manual workaround
works fine too). But this is like nibbling at the edges of a much larger
problem, for example:

1. In 0.7, if you use the gui again, it overwrites your manual
workarounds, like refuse-eap.

2. I still cannot modify routes so that only some traffic goes through
the vpn while all other traffic goes through my internet gateway.

3. There are still dozens of other parameters which were configurable in
0.6.5 but which are not in 0.7. I don't know how many people here have
ever used 0.6.5 under Hardy, but that is why, in my previous post, I
showed a text equivalent of the gui for 0.6.5.

Does anyone know where 0.7 came from, and why it was the version which
was put in Intrepid, given the fairly large amount of bugs in 0.7, and
given the fact (please correct me if I'm wrong) that, according to my
understanding, each new release of Ubuntu starts with the latest Debian
"unstable", and if I search within Unstable at debian.org (
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=network-
manager&searchon=names&suite=unstable&section=all ) I get the following
versions:

network-manager: 0.6.6-2
network-manager-gnome: 0.6.6-2
network-manager-pptp: 0.6.5+svnhead2574+dfsg-2
network-manager-pptp-gnome: 0.6.5+svnhead2574+dfsg-2

and if I search within Experimental
(http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=network-
manager&searchon=names&suite=experimental&section=all ) I get the
following versions:

network-manager: 0.7.0~svn4191-1
network-manager-gnome: 0.7.0~svn953-1
network-manager-pptp: 0.6.6+dfsg-2
network-manager-pptp-gnome: 0.6.6+dfsg-2

I'm wondering if network-manager-pptp 0.7 in Intrepid was simply a
mistake (a rather large one, if so), I also wonder if what Anthony
Mercatante said has any bearing: see
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/network-manager-
pptp/0.6.5+svnhead2574-0ubuntu1 . I quote Anthony as follows:

"* Due to misscomprehension with original maintainer, my previous svn sync was a regression, as I synched with 0.6.5 branch while he did with 0.7 beta and backported the sources for 0.6.x.
Reverting the packaging for the moment as we are late in the dev cycle to resync from svn and get potentially something unstable.
* Applyed patch 01_no_icon.dpatch
* Removed network-manager-gnome dependancy
* Added missing build-dep libnm-util-dev"

Final note: I used aptitude, in Intrepid, to downgrade the five related
packages (network-manager, network-manager-gnome, network-manager-pptp,
libnm-glib0, libnm-util0) to what they were in Hardy, and mark them as
held at the older 0.6.6/0.6.5 version, and it works fine, just like the
good old days in Hardy. But I would not recommend the downgrade to
anyone unless you are willing to put up with the fact that the gui
update-manager and synaptic do not recognize the Held state of the five
packages, so they will both will keep telling you that upgrades are
available for the five.

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Network Manager unable to connect to PPTP VPN (bad NT-Domain escaping)
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