On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 00:02 +0200, daniel åkerud wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, daniel åkerud > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am trying to automatically connect to a VPN (PPTP) > connection through DBus. I have used the script posted by > Tambet Ingo as a starting point, found here: > http://www.nabble.com/dbus-and-OpenVPN-Autostart-td21905375.html > > The problem is that my Ethernet connection ("Auto Eth1"), that > is required to be connected before the VPN, is not listed > through the > org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings.ListConnections > function. > > So how do I get the last parameter to ActivateConnection? > I.e.: > > > iface.ActivateConnection('org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings', > vpn_connection, # = > "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/0" which is my VPN > dbus.ObjectPath("/"), > active_connection, # where to > get? > reply_handler=reply_handler, > error_handler=error_handler) > > I do have the UUID for both connections, found under > cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Auto eth1 > and > cat ~/.gconf/system/networking/connections/2/connection/% > gconf.xml > respectively. > > I am using network-manager-0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964 under Ubuntu > 9.04. > > Any and all help appreciated. > > BR/D > > > Problem solved! I have found the missing connection! :) > > For anyone that might have the same problem in the future, the script > above does not take into account that connections live in two > different services, UserSettings and SystemSettings. Furthermore,
Yeah, User settings are available only while the user has logged in, while system settings are available to all users of the system. > these connection have the same name, complicating things further. > Anyhow, I have made a script that takes this into account and > successfully connects to my VPN. Just add your UUIDs, and run it. > Example output: Yup, this is exactly what UUID is for. Thanks for posting the code! Dan > The code can be found here: > http://pastebin.com/m11349e32 > > $ python nm-vpn-restart.py > connections: > org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings: > add286bb-da7c-4f39-8a2f-13d5233818d6 - Auto ham0 (802-3-ethernet) > org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings: > 12c5b1af-6f44-448e-ba46-be54176efb21 - Auto eth1 (802-3-ethernet) > org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings: > 904a6063-5962-41a3-893c-fbfb30d15de9 - Auto eth0 (802-3-ethernet) > org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings: > 2ce0ec46-ae6b-4d46-9128-78dd8c421345 - Relakks (vpn) > connecting to: > '(dbus.ObjectPath('/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/0'), > 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings')' > with active connection: > '(dbus.ObjectPath('/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/0'), > 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings')' > <<SUCCESS>> > > And you can see in the Network Manager GUI that is connecting to the > VPN. > > /Daniel Åkerud > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
