[Scottish] VPN Connection

[Ronald MacDonald]

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Hello Keith,

Can you provide your vpn.conf?

I note you're using ItsHidden - probably no chance of seeing the server-side conf.

Have you got network-manager-pptp installed?

Ronald.



On 25 Nov 2010, at 17:40, Keith Wyse wrote:

> Hi all;
> I'm trying to create a VPN connection but each time I try to connect,
> I'm told the service failed to start and I'm at a loss as to why.
> I've signed up with a couple of services and activated the accounts,
> and logged in through the web page, so that end should be working
> okay.
> I followed some instructions online;
> http://ubuntu-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/07/jaunty-vpn-itshiddencom.html
> and installed all the software it suggests.
> I also tried installing all the network-manager vpn plugins I could
> find in Synaptic but this has not helped either.
> 
> Can anybody tell me what's wrong?
> 
> My /var/log/syslog shows;
> 
> Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: <info>  Starting VPN
> service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp'...
> Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' started
> (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 2227
> Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' just appeared, activating
> connections
> Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 3
> Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: <info>  VPN connection
> 'ItsHidden' (Connect) reply received.
> Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: <WARN>
> nm_vpn_connection_connect_cb(): VPN connection 'ItsHidden' failed to
> connect: 'No VPN secrets!'.
> Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: <WARN>
> connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no
> VPN connection was active.
> Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: <info>  Policy set 'Auto
> eth0' (eth0) as default for routing and DNS.
> 
> Many thanks
> Keith
> 
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Ronald MacDonald : ronald at rmacd.com

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