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VPN in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

February 19th, 2009 matt Leave a comment Go to comments

I really don’t know how applicable this is to all users of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), but it took me a while to figure out the issue, so hopefully it helps somebody.

In Ubuntu 8.10 I had no issues setting up a pptp-vpn connection with Gnome network manager.

  1. sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp
  2. click network-manager icon in system tray>VPN connections>Configure VPN…
  3. Type in server (vpn.yourcompany.com), Username, and Password.

The first time I tried the same in Jaunty, I kept getting an error that the VPN could not connect.  If folks want more technical details (log file errors, more specific info on our VPN server, network-manager version, etc.) I can provide them.

The main thing you need to know is that I found one additional step fixed the problem.

  1. sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp
  2. click network-manager icon in system tray>VPN connections>Configure VPN…
  3. Type in server (vpn.yourcompany.com), Username, and Password.
  4. Click on Advanced…>checkmark “Use point-to-point encryption (MPPE)”
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  1. spascho
    February 28th, 2009 at 08:29 | #1
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    nice and useful article,it’s very useful for those who use proxy and vpn

  2. anirudha
    September 29th, 2009 at 03:36 | #2
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    nice work… havent tried it on my machine yet..

  3. kk
    October 13th, 2009 at 15:02 | #3
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    guys

    i need help to connect my ubuntu to the school internet. i think it is a vpn. i am not a tech person and all the forums i have been so far are really daunting. pls if anyone can help me i would be gratefull.

    cheers

  4. mk
    November 7th, 2009 at 17:37 | #4
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    Great post! Just thought I let you know there’s one more thing one might need to do to get the VPN connection to work.

    After checkmarking “Use point-to-point encryption” on the Advance settings I still couldn’t connect to my workplace’s VPN.

    When tailing my /var/log/messages I saw the following entry:
    “EAP: unknown authentication type 13; Naking”

    To fix this I had to uncheck the “EAP” auth method in the authentication methods list in Advanced settings first.

    For more details: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-pptp/+bug /301593)

  5. Seamus
    November 26th, 2009 at 10:00 | #5
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    Great post! That “one additional step” is what was killing me! :-) thanks!

  6. manuee
    November 26th, 2009 at 11:17 | #6
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    Thanks for the post, and to comment #4, mk, you just got rid of this bad headache I was starting to get… thanks!!

  7. Vamshi
    February 19th, 2010 at 16:11 | #7
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    Thanks a lot. I have been trying with open vpn and others…did not have luck.

    It helped me a lot that i can do next deployment from home at 1.30 AM EST :)

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