Network Manager and University of Exeter VPN
Saturday, May 19th, 2007So, 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!
