Comments on: Howto Connect to Windows VPN server (PPTP) with Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

By: Stamatis

Stamatis — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:38:39 +0000

Hello,

It seems I can’t make this work. I am new with this so please help me out.
After setting up the VPN connection, when I try to start it asks for
login/passwd and I get these warnings:

** (nm-ppp-auth-dialog:19091): WARNING **: couldn’t connect to daemon at $GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET: /tmp/keyring-hdzrCK/socket: Connection refused
** (nm-ppp-auth-dialog:19091): WARNING **: couldn’t communicate with gnome keyring daemon via dbus: The name org.gnome.keyring was not provided by any .service files

Then after entering domain/login/passwd I get a connection refused and these msgs:

** (nm-ppp-auth-dialog:18333): WARNING **: Couldn’t store authentication information in keyring, code 2
** Message: Activating VPN connection ‘ICS-FORTH’.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Stamatis

By: Robert Gonzalez

Robert Gonzalez — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:46:56 +0000

For the record, changing the routing information had no effect on the speed of the connection. In Windows, the connection is fine. On Ubuntu, not so much.

By: Daniel Pedersen

Daniel Pedersen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:20:42 +0000

I have the exact same issue as Robert dreadfully slow connection, so i really hope someone can help us. Using Windows i don’t have that problem, so it is my Ubuntu configuration which causes it.

Thx.
Daniel

By: Robert Gonzalez

Robert Gonzalez — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:30:02 +0000

I hope this doesn’t come as too n00bish but the VPN connection works and everything is great except the connection seems ungawdly slow. Whether I am using HTTP, FTP or Subversion, any communication seems slower than dialup when connected to the VPN through NM.

I know that I did not change the “Routing” stuff you mentioned because quite honestly I have no idea what my subnet is when connected to the VPN or any of that. That said, could the fact that I did not make the changes in “Routing” be the cause of the unusually slow transfer?

By: c_workaholic

c_workaholic — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:11:53 +0000

Make sure you are in “Roaming Mode”.

I was on “Static IP” mode and it did not work.

I don’t know how it is related.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:08:04 +0000

Well, i used nm to connect to several pptp servers, say windows and linux ones.
What i just can’t do, is route only traffic for the destination lans through the
the tunnel, all traffic goes through the vpn.
So i can’t browse internet, read mail, etc….

I see there are two options to avoid using the dns on the “other side”
1. PPP Options (leave unchecked)
2. the one mentioned here, in Routing. Here i just set the network 10.0.200.0/24
and check Only use VPN connection for these addreses.

Any hints ?

Pablo .

By: Ravi

Ravi — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:46:12 +0000

Just a quick question might seem annoying but after i did all the steps listed in this page..i found that when i close my terminal window my network manager disappears too..Is there anything I can do to get around this?
R

By: Danyel Lawson

Danyel Lawson — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:15:51 +0000

@Phil

Kvpnc is what you want. It sets configurations up several VPN types including Cisco and PPTP in a very dial-up networking style of interface. You still have to install the underlying software for the VPN protocol.

By: Лаки

Лаки — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:13:02 +0000

Make it after connection:

sudo route add default dev ppp0

Sorry for my poor english=)

By: Stas

Stas — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:20:32 +0000

@Alex

I have the same problem with Windows shares, I cannot explore them. However, if you know your the name of a shared folder, you can mount it using command line:
mount -o username=DOMAIN_LOGIN,password=DOMAIN_PASSWORD //SERVER/FOLDER /root/shared_folder