Native VPN PPTP plugin

[Helmut Schaa]

Hi,
Lost the list from CC, readded.

OpenSUSE does not provide packages for Networkmanager-pptp at the moment. This 
would be the name of the package you have to install. And thats why you dont 
see pptp in the service field. If you want to give the pptp plugin a try you 
have to build the NetworkManager-pptp plugin yourself. Get the NetworkManager 
cvs tree as described in [1] and build the pptp plugin found in vpn-daemons.

You may try the plugin in the "NETWORKMANAGER_0_6_0_RELEASE" branch or the 
actual version in HEAD. I think the one in 0.6.0 is not very stable but I 
have not tested the one in HEAD.

[1] NetworkManager Developers Site
http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/developers/

Am Donnerstag, 4. Januar 2007 15:38 schrieb Joachim Just:
> Hello Helmut,
>
> thanks for your script which helped me to build KNM together with the PPTP
> VPN plugin. The configure I used
> was "./configure --with-pptp --prefix=/opt/kde3". Except for several
> warnings everything went O.K. Btw, my distro is openSUSE 10.2.
> I had some problems changing from the original knetworkmanager to the newly
> built one in conjunction with my WLAN interface no longer being supported
> by KNM. After deleting and recreating it via yast it was working again and
> I could connect to it.
> When I try to create a new VPN connection, in the Service field, I can see
> a blank line (obviously that of PPTP) followed by the lines for openvpn and
> vpnc.
> What you actually mean when you say "And you have to install the
> appropriate VPN backend for NetworkManager"? I have installed the pptp
> package. What else is missing?
>
> Thanks for your help. Regards,
>
> Joachim