Comments on: Creating a PPTP VPN connection in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:07:14 +0000

i disabled the EAP auth method then it worked – thx alot

so only chap – mschap – mschapv2 is enabled

By: olaf

olaf — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:22:40 +0000

Hi Henry,

I think the key line here is:

“LCP terminated by peer”, which means that the server you connected to explicitly closed the connection (LCP = Link Control Protocol).

Maybe you need to adjust a few more settings, perhaps this post helps: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1095546

Best,
Olaf

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:54:32 +0000

Hi i too have problems with this vpn thing, have tried all the things above

get this tail

Dec 25 23:47:54 S12 NetworkManager: Starting VPN service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp’…
Dec 25 23:47:54 S12 NetworkManager: VPN service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp’ started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 2286
Dec 25 23:47:54 S12 NetworkManager: VPN service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp’ just appeared, activating connections
Dec 25 23:47:54 S12 NetworkManager: VPN plugin state changed: 1
Dec 25 23:47:55 S12 NetworkManager: VPN plugin state changed: 3
Dec 25 23:47:55 S12 pppd[2289]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5//nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so loaded.
Dec 25 23:47:55 S12 NetworkManager: VPN connection ‘MJ’ (Connect) reply received.
Dec 25 23:47:55 S12 pppd[2289]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Dec 25 23:47:55 S12 pppd[2289]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 25 23:47:55 S12 pppd[2289]: Connect: ppp0 /dev/pts/1
Dec 25 23:47:55 S12 NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0)
Dec 25 23:47:55 S12 NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0): no ifupdown configuration found.
Dec 25 23:47:55 S12 pptp[2291]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[main:pptp.c:314]: The synchronous pptp option is NOT activated
Dec 25 23:47:55 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 1 ‘Start-Control-Connection-Request’
Dec 25 23:47:55 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:739]: Received Start Control Connection Reply
Dec 25 23:47:55 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:773]: Client connection established.
Dec 25 23:47:56 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 7 ‘Outgoing-Call-Request’
Dec 25 23:47:56 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:858]: Received Outgoing Call Reply.
Dec 25 23:47:56 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:897]: Outgoing call established (call ID 0, peer’s call ID 256).
Dec 25 23:47:56 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:950]: PPTP_SET_LINK_INFO received from peer_callid 60025
Dec 25 23:47:56 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:953]: send_accm is 00000000, recv_accm is FFFFFFFF
Dec 25 23:47:56 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 warn[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:956]: Non-zero Async Control Character Maps are not supported!
Dec 25 23:47:56 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:950]: PPTP_SET_LINK_INFO received from peer_callid 60025
Dec 25 23:47:56 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:953]: send_accm is FFFFFFFF, recv_accm is FFFFFFFF
Dec 25 23:47:56 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 warn[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:956]: Non-zero Async Control Character Maps are not supported!
Dec 25 23:47:56 S12 pppd[2289]: LCP terminated by peer (nM-^]eM-D^@ Dec 25 23:47:56 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:912]: Received Call Clear Request.
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 pppd[2289]: Connection terminated.
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 NetworkManager: VPN plugin failed: 1
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices removed (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0)
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 pppd[2289]: Modem hangup
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 pptp[2291]: nm-pptp-service-2286 warn[decaps_hdlc:pptp_gre.c:204]: short read (-1): Input/output error
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 pptp[2291]: nm-pptp-service-2286 warn[decaps_hdlc:pptp_gre.c:216]: pppd may have shutdown, see pppd log
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 pppd[2289]: Exit.
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[callmgr_main:pptp_callmgr.c:234]: Closing connection (unhandled)
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 12 ‘Call-Clear-Request’
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 pptp[2297]: nm-pptp-service-2286 log[call_callback:pptp_callmgr.c:79]: Closing connection (call state)
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 NetworkManager: VPN plugin failed: 1
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 NetworkManager: VPN plugin state changed: 6
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 NetworkManager: VPN plugin state change reason: 0
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 NetworkManager: connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
Dec 25 23:47:59 S12 NetworkManager: Policy set ‘Auto GCEyKU34′ (eth2) as default for routing and DNS.
Dec 25 23:48:12 S12 NetworkManager: [1261781292.003014] ensure_killed(): waiting for vpn service pid 2286 to exit
Dec 25 23:48:12 S12 NetworkManager: [1261781292.003284] ensure_killed(): vpn service pid 2286 cleaned up

can anyone see what can be wrong

Henry

By: olaf

olaf — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:09:20 +0000

Hi Danielle,

Ahh, the “wonderful” VPN issues (in every release… I really hope this stablizes…)
However, your solution might be really simple:

Try manually restarting the network manager service like so:

sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart

This helped in my case. However, the relevant error message seems to be:

Dec 4 19:15:22 Adarak-Prime NetworkManager: nm-vpn-connection.c.828: NeedSecrets failed: dbus-glib-error-quark Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=”method_call”, sender=”:1.2″ (uid=0 pid=614 comm=”NetworkManager)

i.e. the nework manager fails to retrieve your (saved?) password.

Hope this helps,
Olaf

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:16:50 +0000

Eep… forgot to mention that I am currently running the 9.10 netbook remix.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:16:22 +0000

Hello,

I have tried all of the solutions listed above and none of them seems to work. This is what I get from the syslog:

Dec 4 19:15:22 Adarak-Prime NetworkManager: Starting VPN service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp’…
Dec 4 19:15:22 Adarak-Prime NetworkManager: VPN service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp’ started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 27629
Dec 4 19:15:22 Adarak-Prime NetworkManager: VPN service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp’ just appeared, activating connections
Dec 4 19:15:22 Adarak-Prime NetworkManager: nm-vpn-connection.c.828: NeedSecrets failed: dbus-glib-error-quark Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=”method_call”, sender=”:1.2″ (uid=0 pid=614 comm=”NetworkManager) interface=”org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.VPN.Plugin” member=”NeedSecrets” error name=”(unset)” requested_reply=0 destination=”org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp” (uid=0 pid=27629 comm=”/usr/lib/network-manager-pptp/nm-pptp-service))
Dec 4 19:15:22 Adarak-Prime NetworkManager: connection_state_changed(): Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=”method_call”, sender=”:1.2″ (uid=0 pid=614 comm=”NetworkManager) interface=”org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.VPN.Plugin” member=”Disconnect” error name=”(unset)” requested_reply=0 destination=”org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp” (uid=0 pid=27629 comm=”/usr/lib/network-manager-pptp/nm-pptp-service))
Dec 4 19:15:22 Adarak-Prime NetworkManager: Policy set ‘Auto Ratatoskr’ (eth1) as default for routing and DNS.
Dec 4 19:15:35 Adarak-Prime NetworkManager: [1259972135.002279] ensure_killed(): waiting for vpn service pid 27629 to exit
Dec 4 19:15:35 Adarak-Prime NetworkManager: [1259972135.002501] ensure_killed(): vpn service pid 27629 cleaned up

Thanks.

By: Arvin

Arvin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:21:53 +0000

YESS,
It’s Also Worked in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic!

Thanks!!

Arvin

By: Doug S

Doug S — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:06:12 +0000

For me most of the settings worked :
Here is what will work with most standard SBS 2003 R2 setups using the PPTP option for connecting to VPN at the main site :

UN: (put your username in here as in use by your domain network)
PW : leave blank
Domain : Blank
Gateway : IP or Address of OWA or what have you to connect.

ADVANCED SETTINGS :

UNCHECK – PAP , CHAP
CHECK – MCHAP , MCHAPv2
and MPPE
Leave the rest alone.
Connect and voila working well.

THanks.

By: Vinoth

Vinoth — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:45:23 +0000

Hi,
I have installed “network-manager-pptp” for connecting my office VPN in my ubuntu 8.10. After confuguring the PPTP VPN client, I tried to connect it. But it was failed. I have tried a lot of options for connecting the same but no use.

Please find the contents generated in syslog during this attempt and help me know in this regard.

Mar 2 13:07:15 test NetworkManager: Starting VPN service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp’…
Mar 2 13:07:15 test NetworkManager: VPN service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp’ started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 9303
Mar 2 13:07:15 test NetworkManager: VPN service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp’ just appeared, activating connections
Mar 2 13:07:15 test NetworkManager: VPN plugin state changed: 1
Mar 2 13:07:28 test NetworkManager: VPN plugin state changed: 3
Mar 2 13:07:28 test NetworkManager: VPN connection ‘VPN connection 1′ (Connect) reply received.
Mar 2 13:07:28 test pppd[9306]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so loaded.
Mar 2 13:07:28 test pppd[9306]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
Mar 2 13:07:28 test pppd[9306]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 2 13:07:28 test pppd[9306]: Connect: ppp0 /dev/pts/1
Mar 2 13:07:28 test pptp[9308]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[main:pptp.c:314]: The synchronous pptp option is NOT activated
Mar 2 13:07:29 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 1 ‘Start-Control-Connection-Request’
Mar 2 13:07:29 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:739]: Received Start Control Connection Reply
Mar 2 13:07:29 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:773]: Client connection established.
Mar 2 13:07:30 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 7 ‘Outgoing-Call-Request’
Mar 2 13:07:30 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:858]: Received Outgoing Call Reply.
Mar 2 13:07:30 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:897]: Outgoing call established (call ID 0, peer’s call ID 1187).
Mar 2 13:07:30 test pptp[9308]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:405]: discarding duplicate or old packet 0 (expecting 2)
Mar 2 13:07:33 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:950]: PPTP_SET_LINK_INFO received from peer_callid 0
Mar 2 13:07:33 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:953]: send_accm is 00000000, recv_accm is FFFFFFFF
Mar 2 13:07:33 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 warn[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:956]: Non-zero Async Control Character Maps are not supported!
Mar 2 13:07:33 test pptp[9308]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:414]: buffering packet 7 (expecting 6, lost or reordered)
Mar 2 13:07:33 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:950]: PPTP_SET_LINK_INFO received from peer_callid 0
Mar 2 13:07:33 test pppd[9306]: EAP: peer reports authentication failure
Mar 2 13:07:33 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:953]: send_accm is FFFFFFFF, recv_accm is FFFFFFFF
Mar 2 13:07:33 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 warn[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:956]: Non-zero Async Control Character Maps are not supported!
Mar 2 13:07:34 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:912]: Received Call Clear Request.
Mar 2 13:07:39 test NetworkManager: VPN plugin failed: 1
Mar 2 13:07:39 test pppd[9306]: Connection terminated.
Mar 2 13:07:39 test pppd[9306]: Modem hangup
Mar 2 13:07:39 test pptp[9308]: nm-pptp-service-9303 warn[decaps_hdlc:pptp_gre.c:204]: short read (-1): Input/output error
Mar 2 13:07:39 test pptp[9308]: nm-pptp-service-9303 warn[decaps_hdlc:pptp_gre.c:216]: pppd may have shutdown, see pppd log
Mar 2 13:07:39 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[callmgr_main:pptp_callmgr.c:234]: Closing connection (unhandled)
Mar 2 13:07:39 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 12 ‘Call-Clear-Request’
Mar 2 13:07:39 test pptp[9315]: nm-pptp-service-9303 log[call_callback:pptp_callmgr.c:79]: Closing connection (call state)
Mar 2 13:07:39 test pppd[9306]: Exit.
Mar 2 13:07:39 test NetworkManager: VPN plugin failed: 1
Mar 2 13:07:39 test NetworkManager: VPN plugin state changed: 6
Mar 2 13:07:39 test NetworkManager: VPN plugin state change reason: 0
Mar 2 13:07:39 test NetworkManager: connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
Mar 2 13:07:40 test NetworkManager: Policy set ‘LAN’ (eth1) as default for routing and DNS.
Mar 2 13:07:52 test NetworkManager: [1235979472.020096] ensure_killed(): waiting for vpn service pid 9303 to exit
Mar 2 13:07:52 test NetworkManager: [1235979472.020725] ensure_killed(): vpn service pid 9303 cleaned up

Thanks in advance

By: emile

emile — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:04:49 +0000

@Jonatan
Same here, unchecking “system setting” fixed it ;o). With username and domain in their respective fields (not domain/username or username@domain). In the advanced options, I have unchecked PAP & CHAP, while I’ve checked MPPE.

@MQ
First thing to do is to make sure you’ve installed (from synaptic package manager) one of the packages (depending on the VPN flavour you use)
network-manager-vpnc
network-manager-pptp
network-manager-openvpn
If you don’t have one of them installed, your “configure VPN” will remain greyed. Hope this helps.