DISCUSSION: PPTP VPN on Slackware How-to

djbanaan · 03-20-2005, 05:51 PM

This thread is to discuss the article titled: PPTP VPN on Slackware How-to

Monkey Magic · 09-13-2005, 12:15 AM

Does polbox have any mirrors? I've been trying to contact http://www.polbox.com/h/hs001/ for the last few weeks with no luck (it times out). Are other people still seeing polbox?

Monkey Magic · 09-13-2005, 06:39 PM

OK, per chance, it worked today. The new link for the MPPC stuff is http://mppe-mppc.alphacron.de/

eder_michael11 · 06-05-2006, 02:54 PM

sorry..djbanaan
i configured all for slackware server...

but wen i try to connect from windows client appear
error 800 unable to conecto to client..

do you know if at windows do i have to soecific something??? on the propieties..??

eder_michael11 · 06-05-2006, 03:16 PM

i turned off the firewall the questions that i have are....

at the menu config ... in the kernel the options for PPP i selected like this

<M>PPP (point-to-point protocol) support
[ ] PPP multilink support (EXPERIMENTAL)[*] PPP filtering
<M>PPP support for async serial ports
<M>PPP support for sync tty ports
<M>PPP Deflate compression
<M>PPP BSD-Compress compression[*]Microsoft PPP compression/encryption (MPPC/MPPE)

if this is ok??

well other think i think could be the error for not connect the client windows to my server linux is that

/etc/pptpd.conf didnt exist at my slackware i have to copied from the directory /pptp-2../samples to /etc

other thing the file /etc/ppp/options.pptpd doesnt exist only existe
/etc/ppp/option .. i have to copied to this location from the samples too

my slackware version is 10.0
can you helpe to find wich is the error?? i can answer all you ask me please...

lukki · 07-07-2006, 09:07 AM

A problem!
I did everything as written in Djbanaan's article and ... found two problems:
1. libwrap.so.0 is missing and I can't find it for Slackware (???). Problem occurs when pptpd is started "properly" (/usr/sbin/pptpd). However, when I start pptpd directly from command line, it doesn't ask for libwrap.so.0 and runs.
2. when pptpd is running I can't connect using windows xp sp2 client. Returned error code is 619. Firewall is, of course, off.

What is wrong?

(slackware 10.2)

Greets, Lukas

mikese · 05-20-2009, 02:01 PM

I haven't ran slackware since around 1999 i've been on ubuntoo lately or whatever it's called. But setting up a VPN on a shared hosting account isn't that fun you should just get a dedicated server if you can afford it maybe split the cost with some friends.

socialmaker · 07-07-2009, 05:24 AM

Although i'm not a big fan of slackware linux i know it's the toughest one of them all (along with debian if i'm not mistaking). People now are starting to use linux more and more (which is a good thing) but the similarities between linux and windows (i'm referring to the graphical user interface) are just annoying. I know they must make it pretty and all but cmon...
Anyway I'll always love linux and my web hosting plans run under linux really well.

arubin · 11-08-2009, 07:22 AM

I have just configured my PC to connect to my daughter's University using VPN.

The steps I needed were these

1. Install pptd package from slackbuilds

2. add to rc.modules
/sbin/modprobe ppp_mppe

3. mkdir /etc/ppp/peers

4. symlink bin/ip to sbin/ip

5. Create file

/etc/ppp/ip-up

Quote:

#!/bin/sh

/sbin/route add -host

and make it executable

6. pptpsetup --create imperial --server NETWORK_ADDRESS --username USERNAME --password PASSWORD

7. pppd call imperial dump debug logfd 2 nodetach require-mppe

this gets ppp0 running

8. /sbin/ip route add default dev ppp0

This adds ppp0 to the routing table

9. We can then connect to her folder using konquereor

smb://icfs.cc.ic.ac.uk/username

10. login as ic.ac.uk\username