Questions related to VPN (Virtual Private Network) software
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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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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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How can I access Facebook and other forbidden websites in China?
I'm flying to China soon for a long time, so I'd like to know how to configure my Ubuntu 11.04 so I can access forbidden websites (like Facebook)
I've heard about VPN and Proxy, but I don't know how ...
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How do I install the Cisco VPN client?
What is best way to install a Cisco VPN client application in Ubuntu?
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How to configure an OpenVPN Client Router
I am attempting to set up an OpenVPN Router so that I may connect my tablet (wireless) and Blu-Ray (wired) to a paid VPN service in another country on Ubuntu 12.10. I have successfully done this using ...
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Which free VPN providers support Ubuntu?
Can't find any free VPN provider for Ubuntu. I tried looking into old questions but they seem to be outdated.
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No Network Manager icon in the notification area, so I can't use my VPN connection
I've added a VPN using System > Preferences > Network Connections. However, I can't see how to switch it on, because there's no Network Manager icon in the notification area!
nm-applet is running as ...
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Connecting to VPN prevents access to normal web sites
I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed with OpenVPN, and when I connect to a VPN, http access to non VPN sites stops working, until I close the VPN connection. To be more specific, both Chrome and Firefox stop ...
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Troubleshooting failed VPN connection
Is there anyway to get an error log for a failed VPN connection attempt? All I get is this notification and I have no idea where to go from there:
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How do I set up a PPTP VPN on my own Ubuntu Server?
Assuming I have a Virtual Private Server from someone like Linode, running Ubuntu, how do I easily set up a PPTP VPN so that Ubuntu clients can connect to it?
By default, Ubuntu offers to connect to ...
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Server certificate problem with Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client
When I try to connect using the Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client, I receive this error:
Connection attempt has failed due to server certificate problem.
I happened to have this problem in my ...
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What user-friendly VPN software is available?
Other than the Network Manager applet at the Natty panel, is there any other user-friendly VPN tool available. One which has a GUI and can be easily setup.
Ref. question : ConnMan not detecting ...
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What am I doing wrong with racoon on ubuntu precise?
I have a working racoon ipsec vpn setup on an ubuntu lucid server. To set it up, I just did an apt-get on the ipsectools package and configured the racoon.conf file.
If I take the exact same steps, ...
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How do I run a script after OpenVPN has connected successfully?
How can I associate a script to OpenVPN so that it runs when the VPN is connected successfully?
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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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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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VPN connection breaks internet
After installing OpenVPN properly (network-manager-openvpn) and setting up my VPN, I am not able to connect to any internet page or access anything that's remote. Pinging stuff is totally dead.
I ...
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Cannot mount a CIFS network share over VPN
I have setup u VPN connection to our Windows 2008 server at the office and it seems to work fine.
For some reason, however, I still am not able to access the network shares over a VPN connection ...
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Install 32bit Java (OpenJDK) on 64bit Ubuntu 12.04
I have to run Juniper VPN on the 64bit Ubuntu 12.04. I have installed openjdk-7-jre, openjdk-7-jdk and icedtea-7-plugin. After the browser prompts to install the Juniper VPN, I check it has been ...
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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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Config import on network-manager-openvpn
I'm trying to use a free service using the OpenVPN protocol using OpenVPN's GUI module in the network manager.
The config worked perfectly well as .ovpn on Windows. The behavior in Windows is such ...
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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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Error when trying to connect to VPN on startup
This question has been updated. Please see the tail end of this post.
I am trying to set up my Mythbuntu computer to connect to a VPN service when it starts up. My hope is that the Mythbuntu computer ...
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Why does Transmission BitTorrent client say “could not connect to tracker”?
I recently cannot download anything via transmission and the download process remains idle("downloading from 0 of 0 connected peers").
Going through properties> trackers, I see "could not connect to ...
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how to set up a ubuntu server to be (securely) available from internet?
(apologize in advance, I'm a pro-windows newly converted to ubuntu... if my questions are obvious, please tell me).
I want to build a ubuntu server continuously connected to the internet. I own only ...
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How do I get this Cisco VPN client to connect?
I've got Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit and installed network-manager-vpnc and configured the connection but I keep getting this:
NetworkManager[1217]: <info> Starting VPN service ...
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How to connect to windows pptp vpn?
The VPN Server gave me an exe file - connection manager - to connect to the server. Instead, I created a pptp vpn connection under nm-applet, entering only Host, Username & password.
Later I ...
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Is it possible to add a notification message when a VPN gets connected?
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and I use to connect to a pptp VPN, everything works perfectly, when i start my VPN connection I can see that the connection is in progress from the NetworkManager icon, and I ...
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How can I bypass governmental censorship of certain websites, for instance in Iran?
I live in Iran and as you know there's a blocking system here. The people here use VPNs to access websites. I did the same. But days ago VPNs (PPTP, L2TP,SSTP) ports was blocked too. The alternatives ...
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How to force Ubuntu to access the Internet ONLY through a VPN and disable it when disconnected?
Due to privacy issues I'd like Ubuntu to allow applications to send traffic to the Internet only when the VPN connection is established.
The thing is that there are some applications like Skype or ...
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Connect ONLY via VPN
How can I create connection via VPN by default when Ubuntu loading? Also I need don't reach Internet if VPN connection not established or disconnected.
In few words, I need connection to Internet ...
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Setting VPN Client
I need to access VPN from my Ubuntu 12.04.
I see that there is VPN connections > Configure VPN in network manager, but it asks for username and password.
All I have is some .crt, .csr, .key, .ovpn ...
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How to get a VPN for ubuntu?
I saw a thing called VPN connections under the Internet button at the top of my screen.
So I would like more info on this, and possibly instructions on how to set one up. Thanks!
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Is there a free service like HotSpot Shield for Ubuntu?
I use Hotspot Shield (Free VPN) on the Window side when I'm out of the house. Do anyone know of a similar tool or service for Ubuntu?
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Unable to connect to Windows VPN in Ubuntu 11.10
I am very very new bie in the world of Ubuntu. I have recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 and I am not able to connect to Windows VPN.
When I login to Windows 8 I am able to connect to VPN using default ...
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Exempt programs from using active VPN connection
When I connect to a VPN, all my network traffic is automatically routed through it. Is there a way to add exemptions to that? I don't know if adding exceptions has anything to do with the VPN ...
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How can I use NetworkManager in GDM?
I need to connect to a specific wireless network before being able to successfully connect to my user account, since it needs access to a secured LDAP server.
The same applies when I am outside of ...
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Juniper setup on 12.04
I have a laptop with Windows XP and Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bits). Until now, I used Windows XP to connect to a Juniper VPN but now I'd like to try it with Linux. I read the mad scientist walkthrough ...
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Enforce VPN connection to access the Internet
I'm using a VPN when I'm online at an unencrypted wifi. Unfortunately, at my university the connection is quite unstable and at every reconnect the VPN connection is terminated and I manually need to ...
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VPN for SSH, Internet for all the rest
Intro: Hi, I've been trying to get a VPN and ssh command to work together. And I've been successful to the point where I can get on the server with ssh user@hostname. But when the VPN is active, all ...
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How do I connect to a VPN in GNOME-Shell?
I used to be able to choose "connect to vpn" from the network-indicator in Ubuntu but since I've upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 I'm only using GNOME-Shell and I can't find anyway to connect to a VPN from ...
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How to prevent Juniper Network Connect breaking DNS resolutions
Juniper Network Connect has been an issue on 64bit linux for quite sometime. I have found 2 solutions to the Java issue (Solution 1 and 2) but now I am struggling with a new issue.
Network connect ...
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How to connect to a CISCO VPN through UFW
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 (64 bits version) and would like to be able to get connected to the VPN server (CISCO) of my company. I am able to get connected to the VPN server when I disable UFW but, ...
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How do I create a vpn over another vpn?
I am in a network that for accessing internet we must connect to vpn. also there exist another service for special bandwith for some users. So for accessing this service I must create another vpn. But ...
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vpn (pptp) service failed to start [closed]
When I try to connect to a VPN PPTP connection from Network Manager it fails with this message:
vpn connection failed because the vpn service failed to start.
It worked without any problem till I ...
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Ubuntu VPN Using Sonicwall
The only thing keeping me from blowing away the crappy Vista install on my Toshiba laptop and going pure Ubuntu is the fact that I need to VPN to work and they use Sonicwall. Due to some proprietary ...
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How can I configure a CheckPoint SSL vpn? [closed]
I have a brand new laptop (yay!) running 64bit Oneiric Ocelot and I'm still figuring out the pieces missing from my old 32bit system. I need to connect to a CheckPoint SSL vpn at work, but there seems ...
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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.
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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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Forticlient SSL VPN binary not running
I've got a Mac running VMWare fusion with Ubuntu 10.10 in that.
I'm currently using the Fortinet client from OSX, but that client is buggy, every time my Mac sleeps I need to reboot to get the ...
