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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
> 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 <host/ip> 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
I'll have to give that a try.  I may have time tomorrow.  In the example 
above, you show a domain login.  Would "domain\\username" be replaced by 
just "username" or perhaps \\username?

tnx

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