KVpnc is a gui frontend to many VPN clients. Right now, I mainly use it for PPTP. It’s prettier and better integrated into the desktop environment than pptpconfig. I couldn’t find any good setup instructions out there so here it goes…
- Setup the PoPToP client. The pptpclient website has how-to’s for all the major distro’s including Fedora Core 4.
- Install vpnc. In Fedora land, yum install vpnc.
- Install kvpnc. It wasn’t in my yum repo list, but the rpm is available on their site. As of this writing, this will get you the current version rpm -Uvh http://download.gna.org/kvpnc/kvpnc-0.7.2-1.rhfc4.i386.rpm
- Start kvpnc. Kvnpc needs to be run as root to access pptp. Sudo-ing won’t suffice unless you have /sbin in your user path.
- Profile > New Profile.
Profile Name: Friendly name for the connection.
Connection Type: In our case PPTP.
IPSec Gateway: This is misleading. Type in the IP address of the remote machine here.
Username and Password: Fill ‘em in. - Now click on the Advanced button. Enable Advanced Settings and check Do not use BSD compression. In my experience, PPTP wouldn’t connect with it on.
- At this point, you should be able to connect successfully. If not, you may find checking enable debug in Settings > Configure KVpnc > daemons under PPPD helpful. To see the log, go to Profile > Toggle Debug Console
September 18, 2005 at 12:25 pm
Any other tips for dialing into a Windows 2003 server?
I’ve tried everything on your page and always end up with the error below.
info: Script pptp 66.122.226.49 –nolaunchpppd finished (pid 8389), status = 0×0 Modem hangup Connection terminated.
Thanks
Steven
August 9, 2006 at 4:42 pm
What do you do after you’re connected? I just want to log into a windows 2000 machine.
August 9, 2006 at 5:24 pm
Jeff-
You’ll probably want to look into installing something like “VNC”:http://www.realvnc.com to log into the remote machine. If you just want to access your desktop, an easier route would be to just use something like “LogMeIn”:http://www.logmein.com.
February 2, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I am using 0.8.2 on Kubuntu 6.06 and I cannot get a connection at all. There are a lot of fields to fill in and I have no idea what should go where. Any suggestions for this newer version? I just want to log in to a Windows 2003 server.
June 7, 2007 at 12:04 pm
I want to login my Windows server 2003, pptp used.
but I can not use the Kvpn to connect with the message”Remote modem has hung up.Connetion was teminated”