On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:51 -0400, Jamie Jackson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Dan Williams<d...@redhat.com> 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."
So that means that none of the VPN plugins recognized the file. Does it by chance not have a description? There was a bug fixed long after the version of NetworkManager-vpnc that you're apparently using (perhaps Ubuntu should be more pro-active with updates) that would cause the import to fail if no description was present. It would be in the [main] section like: Description=My VPN Connection Dan > 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 > >> NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list