> On 10 May 2017 at 15:12 Thomas Haller <thal...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 14:57 +0100, colin.helliw...@ln-systems.com > wrote: > > > I'd like to get NM VPN connections going on my platform. > > We have a VPN for dial-in from home, so I'll just test out with that > > to > > begin with. We use a Draytek vpn client on Windows, which is > > configured for > > PPTP with the necessary username and password. > > I've built/installed the NetworkManager-pptp plugin, but could I get > > some > > tips please on how to manually (editing/nmcli - no gui) configure a > > vpn > > connection? (The errors from what I've tried so far aren't too > > informative > > > > * reason="Could not find source connection.") > > Not too concerned about the securest/cleanest way to configure the > > connection settings - just want to verify that I've got all the > > necessary > > components installed. > > Hi, > > There is no documentation. Look at the source: > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-pptp/tree/src/nm-pptp-service.c?id=6e4a25d5abbc06010f4ce3a69edad6e121582357#n112 > > It seems easiest to use nm-connection-editor (with the GUI plugin of > NetworkManager-pptp) on another host, and look at the created > connection in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections > > You can copy the keyfile over to your headless system (beware that the > file must be owned by root, and chmod 600; followed by nmcli connection > reload). > > Alternatively, once you *know* which properties you want to set, you > can set them via > nmcli connection modify "$NAME" +vpn.data 'property1=value1' > > best, > Thomas
Thanks Thomas. I've got a little further just now: First my Eth0 wasn't managed [still trying to figure out how to use the ifupdown 'managed' setting, so at the mo' I just need to remember to remove it from /etc/network/interfaces] Then I've added "password-flags=0" and a 'vpn-secrets' section for the password. Log messages now are: May 10 15:12:16 wg daemon.info NetworkManager[972]: <info> [1494425536.6092] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="5a2d1600-531c-42de-ac21-d8a5e1f0f8c5" name="vpn-pptp" pid=1014 uid=0 result="success" May 10 15:12:16 wg daemon.info NetworkManager[972]: <info> [1494425536.6422] vpn-connection[0x1098218,5a2d1600-531c-42de-ac21-d8a5e1f0f8c5,"vpn-pptp",0]: Started the VPN service, PID 1020 May 10 15:12:16 wg daemon.info NetworkManager[972]: <info> [1494425536.7229] vpn-connection[0x1098218,5a2d1600-531c-42de-ac21-d8a5e1f0f8c5,"vpn-pptp",0]: Saw the service appear; activating connection May 10 15:12:16 wg daemon.info NetworkManager[972]: <info> [1494425536.9368] vpn-connection[0x1098218,5a2d1600-531c-42de-ac21-d8a5e1f0f8c5,"vpn-pptp",0]: VPN connection: (ConnectInteractive) reply received May 10 15:12:16 wg daemon.warn NetworkManager[972]: <warn> [1494425536.9610] vpn-connection[0x1098218,5a2d1600-531c-42de-ac21-d8a5e1f0f8c5,"vpn-pptp",0]: VPN connection: failed to connect: 'Could not find pptp client binary.' May 10 15:12:17 wg daemon.info NetworkManager[972]: <info> [1494425537.0177] vpn-connection[0x1098218,5a2d1600-531c-42de-ac21-d8a5e1f0f8c5,"vpn-pptp",0]: VPN plugin: state changed: stopped (6) May 10 15:12:17 wg daemon.info NetworkManager[972]: <info> [1494425537.0292] vpn-connection[0x1098218,5a2d1600-531c-42de-ac21-d8a5e1f0f8c5,"vpn-pptp",0]: VPN service disappeared So an additional package (the "pptp client binary") needed...? _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
