I'm running feisty, if you care.
Steps! This is how to do it:
$ sudo aptitude install network-manager-pptp- Right click -> Remove on the network icon in your systray.
- Alt-f2 -> Run 'nm-applet'
- Left click on the new network icon -> VPNS -> Configure
- Add a VPN with the wizard.
- The VPN will not appear until you do this:
$ /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager restart$ /etc/dbus-1/event.d/26NetworkManagerDispatcher restart
- Left click Network Icon -> VPNS -> The VPN you just created.
$ sudo tail -f /var/log/syslogto discover if it worked.
Yay for guis that make everything easy...
I wish I was being sarcastic. I know how much of a hell setting up pptp clients used to be.
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hello
i am using ubuntu 6.10 & I can not find the network-manager-pptp package...
neither via synaptic package manager nor by your instructions...
It's in the universe repository. You'll have to enable that.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/network-manager-pptp
Thanks! From Russia with love :D
Holy crap! I have yet to get this working since 6.06. I upgraded to feisty 2 weeks ago just for this reason. Never got it work. Checked out your guide and had it functional in 5 min! you rock
BillGod
i'm using feisty (not sure which herd number - upgraded my 6.06 to 7.04 thru update-manager).
my problem is i was able to install network-manager-pptp and was able to create a connection through the wizard. my utimately problem is when i click the network icon->VPN Connection ... the profile/connection is shaded and is not clickable.
any idea?
Is that still the case even after the network manager restart? Have you tried rebooting the machine?
I need to test these instructions with feisty again I think.
the vpn connections we create are greyed when we use a dialup for internet. networkmanager does not see ppp0 in my case, any ideas ??
hi,
i am a ubuntu newbie... the network manager icon does not give me the option to delete it from the panel... is there a work-around?
Kim
hi again,
a machine restart solved the problem!
Thx,
Kim
What gateway is the config looking for? There is a box to type in a gateway, but nothing seems to work????
I can actually connect to the VPN but when I ping the VPN or try to use a terminal server client, it won't budge. Pinging wil result in ping: sendmsg: operation not permitted and the terminal server client just times out. I know this must be a firewall issue (iptables) but you would think that network-manager-pptp would solve this??
The connection is created but when I try to connect, it gives me something like "vpn failed to connect" and nothing serious in the syslog
I clicked right button but there`s no choice to close it (feisty), just enable the connection check and gray "connection information"...
why?
Anonymous: The gateway that you have to enter is the ip you want to connect to via vpn (i.e. the VPN server)
Also, I had to enable roaming mode for the vpn options to appear, then it worked flawlessly
Nice!
Great
Magnific!
Is anyone using this having the following issue with DNS servers setup ?:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/37239
Interesting article! Thanks to author!
went through hell trying to get network-manager-pptp to work. Found:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-452649.html
after installing tried to connect to the VPN and I get the following in my /var/log/syslog
NetworkManager: information-^IWill activate VPN connection 'EMD', service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.ppp_starter', user_name 'jpastore', vpn_data 'ppp-connection-type / pptp / pptp-remote / 69.65.65.40 / usepeerdns / no / encrypt-mppe / no / encrypt-mppe-128 / yes / encrypt-mppe-stateful / yes / compress-mppc / no / compress-deflate / no / compress-bsd / no / ppp-lock / yes / ppp-auth-peer / no / ppp-refuse-eap / no / ppp-refuse-chap / no / ppp-refuse-mschap / no / mtu / 1416 / mru / 1416 / lcp-echo-failure / 10 / lcp-echo-interval / 10 / ppp-extra / / ppp-debug / no / usepeerdns-overtunnel / no / routes / 192.168.0.0/24 / use-routes / no', route ''.
Sep 15 23:26:42 jpastore-laptop NetworkManager: WARNING^I nm_vpn_manager_activate_vpn_connection (): nm_vpn_manager_activate_vpn_connection(): no currently active network device, won't activate VPN.
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for other forum posts and doc I turned off use peer dns and peer dns through tunnel.
any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks for the help - question: I'm using wireless networking but cant get VPN to connect over that. message is "Oct 14 14:22:53 server1 NetworkManager: {WARNING}^I nm_vpn_manager_activate_vpn_connection (): nm_vpn_manager_activate_vpn_connection(): no currently active network device, won't activate vpn "
any thoughts? Do I need to reroute somehow, or will it only work over wired?
I am running a fresh install of Feisty, and trying to get network-manager-pptp working. I can create a vpn connection. I am getting these errors.
Oct 12 21:08:03 slapazine NetworkManager: Will activate VPN connection 'arl_vpn', service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.ppp_starter', user_name 'cnorton', vpn_data 'ppp-connection-type / pptp / pptp-remote / 70.88.243.245 / usepeerdns / yes / encrypt-mppe / yes / encrypt-mppe-128 / yes / compress-mppc / no / compress-deflate / no / compress-bsd / no / ppp-lock / yes / ppp-auth-peer / no / ppp-refuse-eap / yes / ppp-refuse-chap / no / ppp-refuse-mschap / no / mtu / 1404 / mru / 1416 / lcp-echo-failure / 10 / lcp-echo-interval / 10 / ppp-extra / / ppp-debug / yes / usepeerdns-overtunnel / yes / routes / 10.100.0.0/16 / use-routes / yes', route '10.100.0.0/16'.
Oct 12 21:08:03 slapazine NetworkManager: WARNING nm_vpn_manager_activate_vpn_connection (): nm_vpn_manager_activate_vpn_connection(): no currently active network device, won't activate VPN.
cnorton@slapazine:~$
Any ideas? What debugging can I turn on, and in which log file would I find it?
I tested this at work, where I have a wired ethernet connection. Everything works fine. I'd love to know how to tweak my wired environment at home to achieve the same results.
I have wired network connection and i have static IP and i have done everything as said here but still wont connect to my VPN server. Please help to get the connection established, so i can start using ubuntu to do my work. It still gives me the same error " no currently active network device, won't activate VPN. "
My syslog says it's trying to make the connection using my username from the client rather than the username on the server that I type into the Authenticate Connection dialog box. I don't see anywhere where I can tell it not to use the client user name.
Good article,
I will try this setup. Today I'm using pptpvpn.org there I get unlimited bandwidth for only €5 a month which is fine.
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It worked perfectly, thank you very much for sharing a guide.
Thanks! it relly works well!
Great guide. Thanks for sharing.
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