Re: Unmount drives before closing PPTP vpn
On Dec 2, 2007 12:26 AM, mr wizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 at the moment and I'd like to unmount some network drives when I close my PPTP VPN connection. I found NetworkManagerDispatcher, but that doesn't seem to care about VPNs or ppp connections at the moment. That is correct. Unfortunately, there is no solution for it right now other than writing a DBUS signal listener yourself. Tambet Am I missing something, is there another way to do this or should I just wait until it gets fixed? I have looked at the code but I got lost pretty quickly between the different daemons, programs and plugins (also, I've never worked with DBUS). Regards, Ronald ___ 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
Re: Unmount drives before closing PPTP vpn
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 23:26 +0100, mr wizard wrote: Hey guys, I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 at the moment and I'd like to unmount some network drives when I close my PPTP VPN connection. I found NetworkManagerDispatcher, but that doesn't seem to care about VPNs or ppp connections at the moment. Am I missing something, is there another way to do this or should I just wait until it gets fixed? I have looked at the code but I got lost pretty quickly between the different daemons, programs and plugins (also, I've never worked with DBUS). One thing to think about: the VPN gets torn down when you loose your connection. So does your unmount operation still work OK (and not block until a TCP timeout or something) when the connection is already torn down and you no longer have a route through the VPN? This will _always_ be the case, even if there is eventually an advisory VPN termination signal. There will always be the case of an interrupted connection. Dan ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Unmount drives before closing PPTP vpn
On Dec 3, 2007 3:36 PM, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 23:26 +0100, mr wizard wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 at the moment and I'd like to unmount some network drives when I close my PPTP VPN connection. I found NetworkManagerDispatcher, but that doesn't seem to care about VPNs or ppp connections at the moment. One thing to think about: the VPN gets torn down when you loose your connection. So does your unmount operation still work OK (and not block until a TCP timeout or something) when the connection is already torn down and you no longer have a route through the VPN? This will _always_ be the case, even if there is eventually an advisory VPN termination signal. There will always be the case of an interrupted connection. In the case of a lost connection this is always the case, yes. That is not very common for me though, as I generally use a wired connection. I'm talking about the user asking NetworkManager to shut down the vpn (through the applet, in my case). I currently have to take the following steps to get work done, and I'm trying to automate it as much as possible: 1. connect to vpn 2. mount network drives with same username and password as the vpn 3. work 4. unmount network drives 5. disconnect vpn It does appear that there is no way to get notified by NetworkManager when I ask it to bring the vpn down (even by writing my own DBUS signal listener, which was easier than I expected it to be) in such a way that there is always enough time for my script to cleanly unmount the drive. This is something that could be fixed by waiting a short while between sending the notification and actually killing pppd. In any case, I have somewhat succeeded in automating the first two steps with the attached script. The way it works does make me rather uncomfortable, especially with nm-ppp-auth-dialog dumping passwords from the keyring to stdout. It also still requires me to run this script manually instead of using the applet. Regards, Ronald. vpnmount Description: Binary data ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Unmount drives before closing PPTP vpn
Hey guys, I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 at the moment and I'd like to unmount some network drives when I close my PPTP VPN connection. I found NetworkManagerDispatcher, but that doesn't seem to care about VPNs or ppp connections at the moment. Am I missing something, is there another way to do this or should I just wait until it gets fixed? I have looked at the code but I got lost pretty quickly between the different daemons, programs and plugins (also, I've never worked with DBUS). Regards, Ronald ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
