James Knott wrote:

I have been trying unsuccessfully to use PPTP VPN to connect to a couple of remote networks. One requires a domain name and the other doesn't. I have been following some advice in this forum as well as google searching. I have tried webmin, kvnc, the knetworkmanager mods etc., but cannot find any method that allows me to set up what should be a simple VPN connection. This makes me wonder if the pptp client in SUSE actually works! Has anyone come up with a simple, reliable method for configuring a PPTP VPN? I have a valid username, host address, domain name and password for doing this. What else do I need??? What about clear instructions for just using the pptp command???

tnx jk

Hi James, As I have not upgraded to 10.2 just yet, I wouldn't know of any problems with PPTP in it. I do however, have both the PPTP server and client running and working on 10.0, and the procedures should be the same. The company I am connection to is running MS vpn, with mschap-v2 auth and 128bit mppe encryption. This is how I configured it: I did not have much luck with the rpm's available for the pptpclient, therefore i used the tar.gz version 1. Get the latest pptpclient from http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ (direct link: http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pptpclient/pptp-1.7.1.tar.gz) 2. Unpack, compile (make), and install (make install (as root)) 3. You should now have a decent /etc/ppp/options.pptp file, configured for mschap-v2. If you need mppe encryption, uncomment the line thats says "#require-mppe-128". 4. Create a file under /etc/ppp/peers/, e.g. /etc/ppp/peers/company, which contains your username and specific options for this peer. My /etc/ppp/peers/company looks like this: name DOMAIN\\USERNAME remotename DOMAIN\\USERNAME file /etc/ppp/options.pptp Remember, there has to be 2 backslashes at the domain/username seperation. 5. You have to insert you username and password to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets in the format: client hostname <password> IP addresses My /etc/ppp/peers/chap-secrets looks like this: "DOMAIN\\USERNAME" "*" mypassword 6. You should be able to connect to the VPN server with the pptp command: pptp call <name of peer file>, in this case: pptp vpn.company.net call company Hope this helps, it works for me in 10.0 Best regards Sylvester Lykkehus

Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 17:11 schrieb James Knott:

I have been trying unsuccessfully to use PPTP VPN to connect to a couple of remote networks. One requires a domain name and the other doesn't. I have been following some advice in this forum as well as google searching. I have tried webmin, kvnc, the knetworkmanager mods etc., but cannot find any method that allows me to set up what should be a simple VPN connection. This makes me wonder if the pptp client in SUSE actually works! Has anyone come up with a simple, reliable method for configuring a PPTP VPN? I have a valid username, host address, domain name and password for doing this. What else do I need??? What about clear instructions for just using the pptp command???

I have made packages for NetworkManager-pptp. They are at my home dir in the SUSE Build Service: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/hgraeber/openSUSE_10.2/ After some work, the current version works with CHAP authentification. PAP isnt implemented yet work. For users of SUSE Linux 10.1: Ther are packages. too, but currently untested. Herbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org