[opensuse] network manager & vpn & vpn client (a bit long, as I'm confused)
Using SLED10, there is a nice-looking option in the network manager, a left click on the icon in the panel, and there is a "VPN Connections" option, you can configure vpn definitions, and then launch those that have been configured. If you choose to configure, there is a nice little wizard, and there is a choice to import a cisco PCF file. Awesome. But ... so far, I have not been able to get it to work. I constantly get the message: "could not start the vpn connection to "profile name" due to a connection error. Could not contact the VPN server" Hmm .. I know the "vpn server" is accessible, and I can connect to it using a cisco client. So, I went looking through the "Novell VPN Client for Linux" documentation. It describes a totally different VPN gui. It does not seem to have the nice little wizard, and does not reference specifically cisco compatible vpn connectivity, etc. Plus the "profile" that I had created in the network manager client, does not appear here. So ... are these two seperate VPN clients? Are they supposed to work together? The only documentation I can find about the network manager option is about a 1-paragraph description (ie not helpful). I would love for this to work, so that we do not have to install a cisco client. Anyone know the secret of the network manager vpn? Or how it relates to the "novell VPN client for Linux"? Peter -- "I don't know why we think, just because we're mighty, that we have the right to try to substitute might for right." --- Senator Wayne Morse in 1964, the year he voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2/16/07, Peter Van Lone <petervl@gmail.com> wrote: addendum: the documentation for "Novell VPN client for Linux" talks about copying your "user certificate" to a particular path. Where do I find/get a "user certificate"? It appears that I cannot setup a profile without one ... Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Peter Van Lone <petervl@gmail.com> [02-16-07 16:17]:
addendum:
the documentation for "Novell VPN client for Linux" talks about copying your "user certificate" to a particular path. Where do I find/get a "user certificate"? It appears that I cannot setup a profile without one ...
a google search for "linux create user cerificate vpn" yealds 499,000 hits. Adding "+suse" brings 231,000. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 16 February 2007 13:20, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Peter Van Lone <petervl@gmail.com> [02-16-07 16:17]:
addendum:
the documentation for "Novell VPN client for Linux" talks about copying your "user certificate" to a particular path. Where do I find/get a "user certificate"? It appears that I cannot setup a profile without one ...
a google search for "linux create user cerificate vpn" yealds 499,000 hits. Adding "+suse" brings 231,000.
IOTW, you can now spend the next six weeks wading through two hundered and thirty one thousand hits to find an answer. Yikes! -- kai -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 16 February 2007 12:59, Peter Van Lone wrote:
Using SLED10, there is a nice-looking option in the network manager, a left click on the icon in the panel, and there is a "VPN Connections" option, you can configure vpn definitions, and then launch those that have been configured. If you choose to configure, there is a nice little wizard, and there is a choice to import a cisco PCF file.
That is nice. Don't have it on OpenSuse. :P
Awesome.
But ... so far, I have not been able to get it to work. I constantly get the message: "could not start the vpn connection to "profile name" due to a connection error. Could not contact the VPN server"
First off, you're on the intraweb, right? Second, do you have your PCF file loaded and readable by all processes? I have the VPN Client for Cisco (command line) and have it located in /etc/opt/cisco-vpnclient/Profiles/ -- kai the most successful people are those who are good at plan b -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Kai Ponte
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Patrick Shanahan
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