Re: Problem connecting to a pptp vpn server configured by webadmin

[Nicolas Michel <nicolas michel lemail be>]

Hum, I made a mistake. I tried from Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 ...

Le jeudi 28 mai 2009 à 16:12 +0200, Nicolas Michel a écrit :
>     Hi here,
>     
>     I have several pptp server configured by webadmin. I can connect to them from a windows xp desktop but not from my ubuntu 8.04 (and 9.10).
>     I need to say that with network-manager-applet, I CAN connect to pptp vpn Windows servers.
>     
>     So here is my test :
>     1) I first tried to connect from a windows xp to be sure this is not a user/pass problem or network problem
>     2) from the same network place but on my laptop under Ubuntu 9.04. I configured the VPN with network-manager applet and used the exactly same configuration than the one on the windows (same host name for the server, user and password).
>     
>     On my network-manager in the advance window :
>     - everything is checked in authentication method
>     - use mppe is checked 
>     - BSD compression is not checked
>     - Deflate is checked
>     - compress tcp header is checked
>     
>     Here is the log from /var/log/messages on the client side (network-manager) :
>     May 18 11:06:59 nm-laptop pppd[11488]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5//nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so loaded.
>     May 18 11:06:59 nm-laptop pppd[11488]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
>     May 18 11:06:59 nm-laptop pppd[11488]: Using interface ppp0
>     May 18 11:06:59 nm-laptop pppd[11488]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2
>     May 18 11:07:03 nm-laptop pppd[11488]: EAP: Identity prompt "Name"
>     May 18 11:07:03 nm-laptop pppd[11488]: EAP authentication succeeded
>     May 18 11:07:03 nm-laptop pppd[11488]: Connection terminated.
>     May 18 11:07:04 nm-laptop pppd[11488]: Exit.
>     
>     Here is the log from /var/log/messages ont the server side (webadmin) :
>     May 18 10:55:34 SoluxBox pppd[31187]: Plugin /usr/lib/pptpd/pptpd-logwtmp.so loaded.
>     May 18 10:55:34 SoluxBox pppd[31187]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
>     May 18 10:55:34 SoluxBox pppd[31187]: Using interface ppp0
>     May 18 10:55:34 SoluxBox pppd[31187]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
>     May 18 10:55:37 SoluxBox pppd[31187]: EAP: unauthenticated peer name "pcsol_nm"
>     May 18 10:55:37 SoluxBox pppd[31187]: Connection terminated.
>     May 18 10:55:37 SoluxBox pppd[31187]: Connect time 0.1 minutes.
>     May 18 10:55:37 SoluxBox pppd[31187]: Sent 0 bytes, received 0 bytes.
>     May 18 10:55:37 SoluxBox pppd[31187]: Exit.
>     
>     I see that the server tells the user pcsol_nm is not authenticated but using the same user and password on the windows xp works.
>     
>     If there are some other information that can help to debug, tell it to me and I'll give them you back.
>     
>     Thank you for your help, 
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