-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: [vpn-help] Starting the GUI Datum: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:15:05 +0100 Von: Albrecht Mehl <[email protected]> An: Matthew Grooms <[email protected]>
Dear Mr. Grooms, thank you for your response. Am 15.03.2010 03:25, schrieb Matthew Grooms: > On 3/13/2010 1:02 AM, Albrecht Mehl wrote: >> With opensuse Linux 11.2 I installed the vpn client >> which seems to have been successful. But ... either because your >> documentation is too sparse or because I am looking at the wrong places >> I cannot get the GUI running to insert the profil already provided by >> the intended host: >> >> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX >> >> 001109ea63a6:/home/am/internet/shrewvpn/ike/script # ./iked -F >> >> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX >> >> With or without the -F switch there is an immediate return to the >> console prompt. >> >> I thereforwould be most grateful to get a hint on how >> >> - to get the GUI running and to import the profil >> - to get the connection to the host >> >> Please bear with me for these questions perhaps a bit trivial. >> > > From the sparse documentation ... > > ================================================================================ > USAGE > ================================================================================ > > The main process that handles IKE negotiations is iked and must be run > as root. > By default, it will detach itself from the terminal and execute as a > daemon. To > force foreground operation, use the -F switch. A sample configuration > file is > included in this distribution and will be installed in the etc system > configuration directory. The configuration should be suitable to allow for > client operation but can also be modified to allow for site to site or > client > gateway operation as well. See the iked.conf man page for more details. > > Once the iked process has been launched, the VPN Access Manager application > ( ikea ) is used to build remote access client configurations and initiate > client connections. When the Access Manager GUI is used to initiate a client > connection, a VPN Connect application ( ikec ) process is created. This > process > interacts with iked to initiate the connection. Please see the online > documentation available at http://www.shrew.net for more details. > > ================================================================================ > EXPORTED CONFIGURATION FILES > ================================================================================ > > A site configuration contains all the data required to connect to a site > using > the VPN client tools. These configuration files can be exported or imported > using the VPN Access Manager application. The file format used to > describe the > site configuration is a text ducument that contains one attribute per > line with > one or more attribute values. The attribute type is denoted by a single > charachter field followed by the attribute name field and then by a > value. The > fields are separated using a colon charachter. For example, the > following line > describes a string attribute names network-host with a value of 10.1.1.1 Unfortunately this does not help as I had read this already before trying to start the GUI of the client. As you can read in the lines above where I described my unsuccessful attempts to get the vpn client running I used the demon with and without the -F switch which was followed by the immediate return to the prompt. There was no GUI visible, just the prompt. Since I apparently know too few about the client I would be most grateful to get a command by command instruction on how to get the GUI running in order to import the profile provided by the intended host. A. Mehl -- Albrecht Mehl | Schorlemmerstr. 33 |Tel. (06151) 37 39 92 D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany|sehenswert - ungefähr 'Wir einsam im All' http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/index.html _______________________________________________ vpn-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shrew.net/mailman/listinfo/vpn-help
