On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 14:57 +0100, colin helliwell ln-systems com wrote:
I'd like to get NM VPN connections going on my platform. We have a VPN for dial-in from home, so I'll just test out with that to begin with. We use a Draytek vpn client on Windows, which is configured for PPTP with the necessary username and password. I've built/installed the NetworkManager-pptp plugin, but could I get some tips please on how to manually (editing/nmcli - no gui) configure a vpn connection? (The errors from what I've tried so far aren't too informative - reason="Could not find source connection.") Not too concerned about the securest/cleanest way to configure the connection settings - just want to verify that I've got all the necessary components installed.
Hi, There is no documentation. Look at the source: https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-pptp/tree/src/nm-pptp-service.c?id=6e4a25d5abbc06010f4ce3a69edad6e121582357#n112 It seems easiest to use nm-connection-editor (with the GUI plugin of NetworkManager-pptp) on another host, and look at the created connection in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections You can copy the keyfile over to your headless system (beware that the file must be owned by root, and `chmod 600`; followed by `nmcli connection reload`). Alternatively, once you *know* which properties you want to set, you can set them via nmcli connection modify "$NAME" +vpn.data 'property1=value1' best, Thomas
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