Connecting to a VPN in Ubuntu

Posted on Thursday, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:49 PM in ,

Thanks to Jo, super-sysadmin, who pointed me at two links that finally got me connected to our work VPN after I switched from Debian to Ubuntu.  The trick is not to use the old pptp-config, but instead switch to a new package - network-manager.  Brian Daley wrote up the the actual VPN Connection instructions, and I also had to follow the advice to disable network interfaces in /etc/networking/interfaces so that the new package could manage them.  After fiddling with the VPN configuration settings (disable EAP-Authentication, and disable authenticate peer), I was able to connect.  As you can imagine, I was quite overwhelmed by the excitement.

Comments

Jason Lefkowitz says

Thank you so much for posting this -- I've been pulling my hair out trying to connect to our office VPN in Kubuntu...
Posted Friday, Jan 12, 2007 at 09:49 AM

Oscar says

I'm glad it was useful. It was more frustrating that I could not get it to work. I actually don't need the work VPN for very much - 99% of the work I do I can do over SSH/SFTP in Jedit and I get email over IMAP.
Posted Friday, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:20 AM

a programmer says

For serious work that must get done use vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8. KVpnc isn't reliable enough and is mostly useless.
Posted Wednesday, Jun 4, 2008 at 02:00 AM

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