Ubuntu vpn howto

Posted on October 18th, 2007 by Yousef Ourabi

I’ve been playing around with Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon amd64 on my laptop, and as usual each release brings addition polish, and makes forward progress towards the goal of “Linux on the Desktop”.

sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp

You may, or may not need to restart dbus for the plugin to be loaded. If you click on the network manager, and it doesn’t look like the screenshot below, simply issue the following command:

/etc/init.d/dbus restart

After that you may need to reconnect to your network.

Update: There is a known bug with the pptp package and mmpe, see the bug report here (it is unclear if this affects Ubuntu as well): http://www.nabble.com/-Bug-34844–NEW:-PPTP-connection-impossible-t4636741.html

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