On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Dan Williams<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 20:29 -0400, Jamie Jackson wrote: >> My corp is phasing out the old vpn server, and we've been given a new >> profile for the new server. >> >> For the old vpn server, I was able to use some info from the pcf >> profile file, and trial-and-error/guess the rest of the pieces, and >> was able to configure the VPN connection through the NM VPN >> configuration GUI. > > Recent versions of NetworkManager-vpnc (0.7.1) should be able to import > PCF files and get you most of the way there. Is that not working for > some reason? Updates after 0.7.1 will even decrypt the group secret for > you automatically. > > Dan
Hi Dan, thanks for the reply. I've just installed network-manager-vpnc v: 0.7.1~rc4.20090316+bzr21-0ubuntu2 to try out your suggestion. 1. Through NM: "Configure VPN..." 2. Click "Import" 3. Select my PCF 4. Received the following: "Cannot import VPN connection The file '.' could not be read or does not contain recognized VPN connection information Error: unknown PPTP file extension." Renaming the file to remove spaces produces a more lucid error message, but still the same error: "Cannot import VPN connection The file 'myprofile.pcf' could not be read or does not contain recognized VPN connection information Error: unknown PPTP file extension." Do you see any problem with my procedure? Thanks, Jamie > > >> However, I haven't been so lucky with the current file, as the >> trial-and-error hasn't worked out so far. >> >> What's the best way to translate the PCF into something I can use in >> NM-vpnc? Some manual way to translate (I could type into the GUI), or >> some automated way to convert the file... either way would be fine, as >> long as the end result is working VPN through NM. >> >> (BTW, I can already decrypt Cisco VPN secrets, so that's not the >> issue, it's the other options that I think I'm having trouble with.) >> >> I've googled this, but it seems that the information is outdated, when >> it comes to newer versions of NM (at least that's how it seems). >> >> NetworkManager Applet 0.7.0.100 >> >> Thanks, >> Jamie >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
