Comments on: Connect to Windows VPN Server (pptp) with Ubuntu Hardy Heron

By: thanapong

thanapong — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:46:13 +0000

Thanks for very useful tips (Special thank for Mark, Re-create vpn connection)

thanapong

By: Henrik Holm Nielsen

Henrik Holm Nielsen — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:26:45 +0000

Rob,

I love you for this comment:
– Switch to the Compression & encryption tab and select “only Require 128bit MPPC encryption” and Enable “statefull MPPE”.

Many, many thanx – this option cost me about 2 nights of sleep )

Cheers,
Henrik

By: Alvaro Brange

Alvaro Brange — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:38:46 +0000

Thank, It worked in my Ubuntu 8.10, thank to ikar6 comments but check “use Point to Point encryptation” was not necessary.

Regards,
Alvaro

By: Los

Los — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:11:34 +0000

I am able to connect. How do I browse the files on the server?

By: Larry Lambert

Larry Lambert — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:10:48 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Mark. This worked for me, too.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:20:40 +0000

Thanks for this tip. It got me headed in the right direction on Ubuntu 8.10. For my situation the most important part was as lkar6 did and checking “Use … (MPPE)” and “Allow stateful encryption”

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:04:14 +0000

Don’t know if anybody quite had the same from the above, but I had my PPTP VPN connection working fine, installed the latest updates and boom – got the signal 15 error mentioned a few times above. Turned out I had to recreate my vpn connection (with exactly the same settings) and then it worked. Most bizarre and somewhat frustrating…..

toodle pop
Mark

By: ikar6

ikar6 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:15:37 +0000

continued from previous post:
also VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT store the password. When I did that my connection failed. You have to type the password every time you need to connect. This is definitely a bug and needs to be addressed.

By: ikar6

ikar6 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:11:32 +0000

O.K, I have finally made it possible to connect to a MS VPN server with Ubuntu 8.10. Here are my settings: in the advanced tab you must have checked all the boxes (PAP, CHAP, MSCHAP, MSCHAPv2). You must also check “Use point to point encryption” and “allow strateful encryption”. From the drop down menu select “128 bit encryption”. The rest I left it in the default settings and it did the trick for me. Hope it helps!

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:12:19 +0000

For intrepid make sure you remove the password and manually type it eveytime you want to connect. Seems to be a bug. I however have not gotten past the trying to connect. It keeps saying that is has failed to connect. NOt quite sure what the reason there is yet.