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

[Jamie Jackson <myspamb8 gmail com>]

*bump*

(Sorry, my corp has disabled the old, working VPN profile, so now I've
really got to get the new profile working.)

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jamie Jackson<myspamb8 gmail com> wrote:
> 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 I've googled this, but it seems that the information is outdated, when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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>>
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