Re: [Scottish] VPN Connection
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Keith, Can you provide your vpn.conf? I note you're using ItsHidden - probably no chance of seeing the server-side conf. Have you got network-manager-pptp installed? Ronald. On 25 Nov 2010, at 17:40, Keith Wyse wrote: Hi all; I'm trying to create a VPN connection but each time I try to connect, I'm told the service failed to start and I'm at a loss as to why. I've signed up with a couple of services and activated the accounts, and logged in through the web page, so that end should be working okay. I followed some instructions online; http://ubuntu-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/07/jaunty-vpn-itshiddencom.html and installed all the software it suggests. I also tried installing all the network-manager vpn plugins I could find in Synaptic but this has not helped either. Can anybody tell me what's wrong? My /var/log/syslog shows; Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: info Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp'... Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: info VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 2227 Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: info VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' just appeared, activating connections Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: info VPN plugin state changed: 3 Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: info VPN connection 'ItsHidden' (Connect) reply received. Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: WARN nm_vpn_connection_connect_cb(): VPN connection 'ItsHidden' failed to connect: 'No VPN secrets!'. Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: WARN connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active. Nov 25 17:27:16 kwyse-media NetworkManager: info Policy set 'Auto eth0' (eth0) as default for routing and DNS. Many thanks Keith ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Ronald MacDonald : ron...@rmacd.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkz3wLQACgkQg+87crce7IMUCwCgyZ0A5zM4YbtIUMgWh03Ad4p7 8dAAoKSMc4NTd0Sb9gzJO9Pe5LsXeKl9 =iGb9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Linux on MARS !
2008/6/9 babaguy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Guys Gals ! You'll probably see this sooner or later, but here it is - far out, eh? http://www.bloggernews.net/116062/ UNIX, not Linux ;) [1] Nice find though. Ronald [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VxWorks -- Ronald MacDonald http://www.rmacd.com/ 0777 235 1655 ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Happy New Year....ummm...and question !
Hi, I just put the Debian Live CD in (Knoppix) and booted up, but the system locked up when I tried to find out how to use Konqueror (because I couldn't see how to connect to the internet and therefore accessed the How-To files in Konqueror and it just - locked up !) Was this just because everything runs very slowly when you run a LIVE version (and I should have just been patient...?), or was it just - well - locking up (as it appeared) ? live cd's tend to be much sower than installed systems - the most obviious bottleneck being the read speed of the CD drive. If you plan to use a live CD on a regular basis, a low cost, fast cd rom reader is a worthy addition to your computer. kde's pretty heavy on system resources and finding a live cd which is based on gnome instead on kde might be a better idea. generally, kde is a fantastic system with great flexibility and it's very intuitive, but of course, trying to run this off a live cd doesnt really work all that great. In Windows, there is a double arrow icon in the lower right-hand corner that will bring up a BT ADSL window which we have to use to connect, but Knoppix did not seem to detect this or allow me a way to see/connect to my ADSL modem. connecting to the internet:presumably, the modem is a plug n' play usb one? if it is, these are a bit more difficult than your standard ethernet to set up. Check up google HCL's, I'm sure your modem will be around there somewhere. let us know how you get on! regards, Ronald. -- Ronald MacDonald http://www.rmacd.com/ 0777 235 1655 ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
