Re: Ethernet connection not listed through DBus/ListConnections

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 00:02 +0200, daniel åkerud wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, daniel åkerud
> <daniel akerud gmail com> wrote:
>         
>         I am trying to automatically connect to a VPN (PPTP)
>         connection through DBus. I have used the script posted by
>         Tambet Ingo as a starting point, found here:
>         http://www.nabble.com/dbus-and-OpenVPN-Autostart-td21905375.html
>         
>         The problem is that my Ethernet connection ("Auto Eth1"), that
>         is required to be connected before the VPN, is not listed
>         through the
>         org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings.ListConnections
>         function.
>         
>         So how do I get the last parameter to ActivateConnection?
>         I.e.:
>         
>         
>         iface.ActivateConnection('org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings',
>                                      vpn_connection, # =
>         "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/0" which is my VPN
>                                      dbus.ObjectPath("/"),
>                                      active_connection, # where to
>         get?
>                                      reply_handler=reply_handler,
>                                      error_handler=error_handler)
>         
>         I do have the UUID for both connections, found under 
>           cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Auto eth1
>         and 
>           cat ~/.gconf/system/networking/connections/2/connection/%
>         gconf.xml
>         respectively.
>         
>         I am using network-manager-0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964 under Ubuntu
>         9.04.
>         
>         Any and all help appreciated.
>         
>         BR/D
>         
> 
> Problem solved! I have found the missing connection! :)
> 
> For anyone that might have the same problem in the future, the script
> above does not take into account that connections live in two
> different services, UserSettings and SystemSettings. Furthermore,

Yeah, User settings are available only while the user has logged in,
while system settings are available to all users of the system.

>  these connection have the same name, complicating things further.
> Anyhow, I have made a script that takes this into account and
> successfully connects to my VPN. Just add your UUIDs, and run it.
> Example output:

Yup, this is exactly what UUID is for.  Thanks for posting the code!

Dan

> The code can be found here:
> http://pastebin.com/m11349e32
> 
> $ python nm-vpn-restart.py
> connections:
>  org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings:
> add286bb-da7c-4f39-8a2f-13d5233818d6 - Auto ham0 (802-3-ethernet)
>  org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings:
> 12c5b1af-6f44-448e-ba46-be54176efb21 - Auto eth1 (802-3-ethernet)
>  org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings:
> 904a6063-5962-41a3-893c-fbfb30d15de9 - Auto eth0 (802-3-ethernet)
>  org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings:
> 2ce0ec46-ae6b-4d46-9128-78dd8c421345 - Relakks (vpn)
> connecting to:
>   '(dbus.ObjectPath('/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/0'),
> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings')'
> with active connection:
>   '(dbus.ObjectPath('/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/0'),
> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings')'
> <<SUCCESS>>
> 
> And you can see in the Network Manager GUI that is connecting to the
> VPN.
> 
> /Daniel Åkerud
> 
> 
> 
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