Jonathan R. Pritchard's Homepage » connection http://www.jonathanpritchard.com/blog Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here. Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:50:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= NetworkManager PPTP VPN Connection Fails http://www.jonathanpritchard.com/blog/networkmanager-pptp-vpn-connection-fails-99 http://www.jonathanpritchard.com/blog/networkmanager-pptp-vpn-connection-fails-99#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:31:29 +0000 Dead1nside http://www.jonathanpritchard.com/blog/?p=99 Continue reading →]]> My university uses PPTP for its VPN, luckily GNOME’s NetworkManager has a PPTP plugin available for it called ‘NetworkManager-pptp’ but despite entering the correct settings, username and password it used to try to connect and always fail.

After much searching I found this forum thread with reports from many others also experiencing this problem, this post in particular solves the issue, so I didn’t see any need to reproduce its clear instruction.

It involves using ‘gconf-editor’ to add some entries, a bit like editing the Windows registry.

Hope it helps someone.

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