Re: How to convert Cisco VPN PCF to something network-manager-vpnc can use?

[Jamie Jackson <myspamb8 gmail com>]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Dan Williams<dcbw 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."

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 I've googled this, but it seems that the information is outdated, when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
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