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Network Manager and University of Exeter VPN

So, at home currently rather than at university, this poses a problem when trying to connect to some resources, such as internal machines and private resources. I know Network Manager in Ubuntu has VPN support but I had never tried it out, so, I gave it a go. Issue the following command to install the required package, provides Microsoft VPN support to Network Manager.

$ sudo aptitude install network-manager-pptp

Now you can load my configuration by downloading the configuration file and click on the network manager applet, find the VPN Connections sub menu and hit Configure VPN…. Hit Forward, from the list choose PPTP tunnel, press Forward again and now press Import Saved Configuration…. Find the configuration file I told you to download and select it, now press Forward and then click Apply. Bingo!

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4 Responses to “Network Manager and University of Exeter VPN”

  1. Andy Wills Says:
    October 24th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

    Hi there! Is this still working for you? I just tried your script in Ubuntu 7.10 and I get a ‘connection refused’ error. I can successfully VPN using a Windows XP box, so it’s not my line or anything. Any thoughts? I’m pretty new to Linux, so any advice gratefully received.
    Best
    Andy

  2. Chris Says:
    October 25th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

    Worked first time for me, checked your username and password?

  3. Andy Wills Says:
    October 26th, 2007 at 11:04 am

    Thanks for getting back to me - you’re a star :-)

    No, I’m definitely getting the username and password right. I tried it several times on the Ubuntu box, no luck; whilst it works fine each time on the XP box connected to the same router. Also, the error message is:

    VPN Connect Failure
    Could not start the VPN connection ‘University of Exeter’ due to a connection error.
    VPN Connection failed.

    Which, unless it’s a shoddy error message, seems to suggest that it’s not an authentication error?

    Weird…

  4. Chris Says:
    October 26th, 2007 at 7:19 pm

    Sorry I don’t really to have time to do the debugging effort on this, consider raising the issue on the Ubuntu Answers Launchpad service [1] and/or on Ubuntu Forums [2]. Reply with a link to the posts you make at either site and I will chime in with any information I can provide.

    [1] https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
    [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/

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