unable to connect to VPN

we should have updated vpn packages at latest for beta ... Ill try to come up with test packages in ~network-manager PPA asap.

Thanks Alex.

Sorry about the Dupe. I should have said that I am using PPTP - I don't know if it helps much, so it's obviously more than the individual VPN types.

Jason

I marked https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255741 as a duplicate of this bug. Obviously it's an issue concerning all types of vpn.

Thanks Alex, OpenVPN is working now with your test svn version. I hope vpnc and pptp will follow.

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:28:30PM -0000, Matthias Metzger wrote:
> Thanks Alex, OpenVPN is working now with your test svn version. I hope
> vpnc and pptp will follow.
>

Thanks for confirming. vpnc and pptp will follow asap at the same
place. please confirm that they work as well then.

 - Alexander

Hi, pptp seems to work properly. But to get vpnc working we need also an updated .deb "network-manager-vpnc-gnome".
Thanks

Matthias

Everything works fine with latest updates.

Confimed

With the latest update, adding vpn connections is enabled.

I still have this bug at Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.

I just tried 8.10 in VirtualBox and VPN tabs have these buttons disabled. Damn, I thought this would be the first Ubuntu version that i could recommend my users, whithout "oh and you just need to download pptp and network_manager_pptp before you could configure vpn connection". Oh well :`(

Ubuntu 8.10 has this bug.

Same line of thought as Diver. It would be nice if you didn't have to do research (like finding this bug) to know you need to install extra packages for this to function

open a wishlist bug against ubuntu that asks for inclusion of vpn plugins on CD.

The point is, that there should not be VPN tab if none of VPN plugins are installed.
Or it should suggest to download one (like with codecs).
Anyway, having VPN plugins on CD is not enough, you should also have network_manager_pptp (whatever it is) installed.
And it is really strange, that there is no default VPN support in ubuntu (how can anoyone download VPN packges without running VPN connection to ISP?). Windows has pptp support since win98, 10 (!) years ago.

Diver -> at best dive down ;) ... having them on CD is equivalent of having htem on CD.

(Further, seriously you should look at other vpn technologies too ... pptp is known to have security issues and the fact that windows has it for ages only means that it was a windows invention (and its most likely the worst vpn that exist!).)

err equivalent to having them installed by default i meant ;)

ok i made a bug out of "install vpn stuff by default" -> bug 278153