Today I had to create a PPTP VPN in a Debian virtual machine, therefore I installed the following packets :
- $sudo apt-get install pptpd
- $sudo apt-get install pptp
- $sudo apt-get instapp network-manager-pptp
but when I tried to add the VPN ( in System -> Preferences -> Network Connections ) the “add” button was disabled.
I tried to use the installed tools such as “pptpsetup”, but I couldn’t connect remotely to my VPN, but after a few searches apt with apt-cache search, and with the help of a friend we found out that other packages were missing. To solve the problem you might install the following package :
- $sudo apt-get network-manager-pptp-gnome ( which was the Gnome GUI)
If this doesn’t solve the problem, ( and to install everything ), I finally installed also those :
- $sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn
- $sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc
- $sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc-gnome
after this I restarted the following services :
- /etc/init.d/pptpd restart
- /etc/init.d/network-manager restart
and I could configure my VPN.
and that’s it.
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