This applies to the latest release (7.04), because from what I understand older versions had more (complicated) steps to follow. My solution is based on this blog posting combined with some advice from here. The steps are:
- Install the network-manager-pptp package (either by doing
sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp, by using Synaptic or any other way you like) - Click on the networking icon and set up your VPN
- Issue the following commands (the package installation seems to issue at least some of these commands, however I couldn’t get my VPN to connect until I re-issued them):
sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager restart sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/26NetworkManagerDispatcher restart
- Profit err – I mean happy VPN-ing
4 responses to “Setting up a PPTP VPN (client) with Ubuntu”
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I’ve now employed Hamachi as well and ditched the problematic MS VPN solution.
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i have configured it. but how to start it. please help me
@Anonymous: you start it by clicking on your network manager icon, going to "VPN Connections" and clicking on the name you've assigned to the VPN connection.