mateo's musings » network-manager http://mateometzger.info life, love, linux, etc. Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:34:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 VPN in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) http://mateometzger.info/2009/02/19/vpn-in-ubuntu-904-jaunty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vpn-in-ubuntu-904-jaunty http://mateometzger.info/2009/02/19/vpn-in-ubuntu-904-jaunty/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:37:20 +0000 matt http://mateometzger.info/?p=151 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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