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VPN keeps Dying/Restarting on 12.04
Hi I am running Ubuntu 12.04. I recently got into VPNs for anonymous downloading; however, no matter what VPN location I choose (my provider allows me several), it eventually dies. This happeneds ...
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How To Debug and Fix PPTP/VPN Client Connection
I am asking a question, which has two sub-questions. Those are how can I get VPN to work on Ubuntu 12.04, either by getting the built-in pptp VPN to work or through manual configuration. Microsoft ...
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OpenVPN fails to connect
I have posted a previous question about getting OpenVPN connected as a client (OpenVPN fails from Network Manager, seems to connect from terminal, but no traffic to or from target network) but no ...
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Lost ability to connect to PPTP server after installing openvpn gone client
I have a Tomoato router which is running a PPTP server. I was able to connect via my ubuntu machine and my phone.
I bought a VPN service which used Openvpn (private Internet access) and followed ...
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Automatically mount/umount sshfs on vpn-up and vpn-down
this problem is really frustrating me. I have the following script to mount/unmount a sshfs upon a vpn connection (vpn-up) and vpn-down. I have this script in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ ...
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How to setup SSH VPN in Network Manager?
I am using 12.10 and I want to setup SSH VPN via GUI in Network Manager,
But it has only pptp and no other types to select. How can I fix it? any packages I need to install?
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Networkmanager OpenVPN problem
I'm trying to set up an OpenVPN connection and I've imported the correct .opvn file and provided the username and password. I don't have a CA certificate so I left this field with the default option . ...
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How to use VPN over manually set up network bridge (with the primary interface unmanaged by NetworkManager)?
I've set up a network bridge which I'm using to connect KVM virtual machines on my desktop to my home network; I' ve don this the manual way by creating the bridge in /etc/network/interfaces (the way ...
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How to create pptp vpn connection manually?
I have created the vpn manually by creating vpn client in
/etc/ppp/peers/myvpn
but using this method i have to type extra command to route the ip traffic through vpn
Is there a way to create a ...
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How can I get the protocol used by network interface
i wander know how to get the protocol used by the network interface
I have established two vpn connection to remote gateway, one is base on pptp protocol, the other is base on l2tp protocol.
and ...
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2 OpenVPN Connections with NetworkManger
How can activate 2 OpenVPN-Connections at once ?
Is one connection active the other one is disabled in the menu of the network-manager.
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Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client broke my internet
I was using the AnyConnect client when it froze and I had to do a hard reboot of my computer. Now I can't connect to the internet at all, with or without VPN. The Network Connections manager seems to ...
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Is there any way to set up a sspt vpn connection in ubuntu 12.04?
All of the information I am finding is for ubuntu 11.04 or 11.10. I have installed from source from sstp-client.sourceforge.net at which point Ubuntu thought i needed a dist-upgrade and removed it. I ...
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Can't connect to Windows pptp server via ubuntu
I created a normal PPTP server in windows using network connections window. I can connect to the server using a windows client without any problem, But when it comes to Ubuntu, connection fails.
This ...
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selectively route traffic in split-VPN 12.04
I often work remotely. I use the Network Manager to set up my VPN connection, which has worked pretty well. The VPN I have set up currently using the Password with Certificates (TLS) type. What I ...
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Change OpenVPN client's default route
When setting up a test openvpn client on Ubuntu (using this guide), the client sets a route which tunnels all traffic through the vpn.
For example, when I connect to the vpn from Ubuntu, this is what ...
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How can I access debug info for failing VPN connection via Network Manager?
I have a VPN connection set up via the Network Manager. Today it failed because I forgot make the key files accessible, once I made them accessible, it worked. Yay!
But, what if I hadn't remembered? ...
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How can I get NetworkManager to autoconnect to a Openconnect VPN via nmcli without prompting for a user and password
I am trying to set up a script driven VPN connection with nmcli on Lubuntu 12.10 using Openconnect and NetworkManager and I cannot seem to get it to connect either with the saved credentials or via ...
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Making network connection “available to all users” and “connect automatically” has no effect
I'm the main user of my machine, but I want it to be usable by other members of my family too, without sharing passwords. The problem is there seems to be no (simple) way for someone to connect to the ...
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PPTP VPN connects via NM but goes down during SSH connection
I setup a VPN PPTP connection via network manager and it connects correctly (I see the lock near the notification icon and the message "Vpn connection has been successfully...")
As soon as I try to ...
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vpnc hanging, problem with NetworkManager?
I'm trying to get vpnc to connect from my Rackspace server running Ubuntu 12.04 to a remote VPN server and running into problems. Specifically, vpnc is hanging on startup and I have had to restart my ...
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Vpn connection breaks with hint “short read (-1): Message too long”
I have duall access l2tp connection to internet through router and pptp connection to my company's local network. Network Manager connects succesfully to vpn, but when I try to get some resources from ...
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What is the best way to bypass China firewall to allow SSH deploy@**.com
I am trying to bypass the china firewall and allow SSH deploy@**.com at the command console. This is because I need to test the games I wrote on apps.facebook.com/**. I tried VPN (both pptp and ...
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vpn is not connecting while selecting from netwok manager [closed]
I don't understand why the problem occurs, but when I'm trying to select vpn from network manager icon, it didn't show the process neither it connects. It seems no events occurs while I'm selecting ...
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Connecting to VPN / proxy with different port number
I have an IP address, port, username, and password for one of those VPN / proxy services that allows you to use an IP address other than what your ISP gives you, but in the 'Edit Connections > VPN' ...
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Is it possible to auto-mount sshfs
Is it possible to auto-mount a remote FS using sshfs upon instantiating a proper VPN connection?
Allow me to explain the scenario, I'm working remotely, to do that it helps if I can mount my home dir ...
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How to setup VPN as Proxy
I have an PerfectPrivacy VPN connected via the OpenVPN-Network-Manger-Plugin (Ubuntu 12.04.1) and I want to assign a system wide proxy over that VPN.
I have tried proxydriver that should do that ...
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Why does the common internet stop working when I connect to an OpenVPN server?
I've set up an OpenVPN daemon on an Ubuntu server of mine and as soon as I connect to it from my Ubuntu laptop with a Network Manager plug-in web pages won't open any more (but get ok as soon as I ...
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L2TP connection fails!
I've installed l2tp-ipsec-vpn but when I try to connect to the vpn server I get error 500.
Here are the logs:
Jun 17 12:54:37.449 ipsec_setup: Stopping Openswan IPsec...
Jun 17 12:54:38.858 Stopping ...
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OpenVPN is installed but it is not an avaliable option in the network manager
I have installed and used openVPN once before in a previous install of Ubuntu 12.04. I have since reformatted, and now after reinstalling openVPN it will not show up in the network manager. I am ...
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Cannot Import VPN connection
Since 12.04 I cannot connect to my VPN. my ovpn file is the following
http://email.uoa.gr/help/download/vpn/edunet.ovpn
When I try to import the VPN file i get the following error
The file ...
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12.04 VPN/resolv.conf issues
According to http://www.stgraber.org/2012/02/24/dns-in-ubuntu-12-04/ resolv.conf contains only a single record for local dnsmasq server
When I connect to OpenVPN server using network-manager-openvpn ...
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VPN has not worked since upgrading to 12.04
I am trying to establish a VPN connection on 12.04. It had worked in 11.10 but not at all right now. I can connect with Windows 7. My roommate also recently upgraded and is having the same problem.
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Configuring a vpn connection with network manager
I'm on Xubuntu and I just want to make a simple modification in the configuration of the network-manager for the openvpn connection, and it requires me to authenticate. Here is what is going on : I go ...
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Reading network-manager password from another hdd
Today I cloned my Ubuntu 11.10 into my old hdd, and installed 12.04 into my current hdd.
What I need now is to recover passwords for my VPN connections on the network manager that is in the old 11.10 ...
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Error: No suitable device found: no active connection or device [closed]
I am trying to SSH to a machine and initiate a VPN, created whilst in front of the machine through GNOME (Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS);
$ nmcli con
NAME UUID ...
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Wired unmanaged after playing with VPN
I was trying to install VPN server and followed some 'tutorials' and now I end up with eth0 - unmanaged.
when called 'network-admin' there is no tab 'connection' just General,DNS,Hosts. WiFi works ...
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How can I have my VPN connect automatically when the wireless connects?
I have a working VPN connection using NetworkManager, OpenConnect, and the network-manager-openconnect-gnome package, but I have to start it manually every time I connect to a network, and I have to ...
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Internet becomes unavailible after connecting through vpn
I am connecting to vpnc which breaks my internet connection. I understand, that this is because all my traffic is forwarding to vpnc now, so the problem is about routing.
So, how can I manage my ...
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No internet access when I'm connect to my company's VPN
I googled my problem and I've read some questions in Ask Ubuntu, but I didn't solve my problem.
I connect to a PPTP VPN server and it works well, but when I'm connected to that VPN I don't have ...
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PolicyKit - network manager - insufficient privileges [closed]
Since my upgrade on 11.10-beta1, I cannot edit my VPN-settings anymore. Under nm-applet => VPN the edit-button is greyed out. Unter the settings => network => vpn => configure, I get the error message ...
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What's the preferred method for connecting to a PPTP VPN under KDE?
I have a remote worker who's got a Ubuntu 10.04.3 machine, running KDE. She was using KVPNC until she did an update over the weekend (I don't have the details on the update, she may have been using an ...
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Connect/disconnect from VPN from the command line
I have two VPNs setup on my Ubuntu machine, one using vpnc and one using PPTP. These were both setup using the GNOME network manager interfaces and work great. However on occasion I need to access ...
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NM-applet's VPN menu disappears
I spend my days hopping between VPN connections in Ubuntu 10.10 and this is becoming severely annoying. What happens is that every once in a while - typically several times a day - when I click on the ...
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How to debug grayed out VPN connection in Network Manager?
I've added a new PPTP VPN connection under Network Manager -> VPN Connections -> Configure VPN. Now the connection is listed under "VPN Connections", but it's grayed out.
How can I debug this?
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Button “Add” is disabled in VPN Connection's dialog
I've just installed elementaryos-jupiter. (It's based on Ubuntu 10.10)
I've entered VPN Connections' menu (nm -> VPN Connections -> Configure VPN)
And there should be button "Add" -> it is, but it's ...
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How to automatically connect to VPN with Network-Manager
I do have a working VPN connection. Now I want this VPN connection to automatically activate when I'm in a certain wireless network. Is there a non-intrusive graphical way using ...
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How do I setup OpenVPN so I can securely use the internet from an unsecured hotspot?
Goal: I want to be able to securely use the internet via my home PC while my notebook is connected to an open hotspot/access point.
I do know that I can use a SSH tunnel/SOCKS proxy, but I don't want ...
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Do any NetworkManager VPN plugins support IPv6?
Do any of the NetworkManager VPN plugins support IPv6? The two I've tried so far (PPTP and StrongSwan) only show an "IPv4" tab. I would have thought at least the IPsec one would support IPv6?
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Where are VPN configuration files imported by Network Manager saved?
I've imported an OpenVPN configuration file that behaves differently when trying to connect from Network Manager and command line. I would like to see what the imported configuration file looks like.
