{"id":57,"date":"2006-08-19T17:42:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T05:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2006\/08\/19\/networkmanager-pptp-plugin-one-ubuntu-package-hold-the-pepper\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T12:36:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T00:36:25","slug":"networkmanager-pptp-plugin-one-ubuntu-package-hold-the-pepper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2006\/08\/19\/networkmanager-pptp-plugin-one-ubuntu-package-hold-the-pepper\/","title":{"rendered":"NetworkManager PPTP plugin: One Ubuntu package, hold the pepper!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><center>Please see the updated <a href=\"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/networkmanager-pptp-plugin-for-ubuntu\/\">NetworkManager PPTP Plugin for Ubuntu<\/a> page. Thanks!<br \/>\n<\/center><\/h3>\n<p>Some time after blogging about getting <a href=\"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2006\/07\/29\/networkmanager-pptp-plugin-checking-out-building\/\">NetworkManager's PPTP plugin checked out of CVS<\/a>, I have some news to report.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.students.ncl.ac.uk\/a.j.mee\/blog\/\">Tony Mee<\/a> is a legend.<\/strong>  The author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.students.ncl.ac.uk\/a.j.mee\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/11\/21\/networkmanager-pptp-vpn-support\/\">the plugin<\/a> has spent a lot of time with me, by e-mail, Jabber and Skype, accepting bugfixes, working on solutions, explaining things slowly for my <a href=\"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2006\/08\/17\/basic-liability-insurance\/\">non-programmer-brain<\/a>. Most of the work done has been by him. I can't thank him enough here.<\/p>\n<p>A few points to note first:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This plugin is in the middle of being converted to handle things that aren't just PPTP, and as such it presents a few more options than it might need to. Ignore screens about GPRS and Bluetooth; hopefully a subsequent version will see me disable them.<\/li>\n<li>It is the CVS HEAD version, with the new pluggable-auth-dialog removed, as it just didn't want to build right, and isn't yet ready to replace the old auth-dialog.<\/li>\n<li>Default PPP options might not suit - you will probably have to tick \"Refuse EAP\" on Authentication and \"Require MPPE encryption\/Require 128 bit MPPE encryption\" on Compression &amp; Encryption to connect to a Windows 2003 VPN server.<\/li>\n<li>There are a variety of bugs with the current version of NM that could bite you.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=344967\">VPN plugins can't set the MTU<\/a>, you can't <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=333853\">edit a VPN connection immediately after making it<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=349991\">irrelevant tabs aren't hidden<\/a> - most of these will require the new 0.7 series to be released, which probably won't happen before Edgy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You will have to restart DBUS, or log out and log back in again, after installing this plugin, before you can connect.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As usual, everything I know about autotools and CVS I leant from <a href=\"http:\/\/coders.meta.net.nz\/weblog\">Perry<\/a>.  Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the fun part. <strong>I have packaged the NetworkManager PPTP plugin for Ubuntu 6.06.<\/strong>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlug.org.nz\/~crb\/nm\/\">Download it here<\/a>.  I will have it up in an apt repository in the next couple of days. Please raise bugs in the program at the <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/browse.cgi?product=NetworkManager\">GNOME bugzilla<\/a>, please leave comments on the package or general messages of \"Hello!\" in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is to find out how to disable all the irrelevant parts in the package, and start considering my potential future as an Ubuntu MOTU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please see the updated NetworkManager PPTP Plugin for Ubuntu page. Thanks! Some time after blogging about getting NetworkManager's PPTP plugin checked out of CVS, I have some news to report. Tony Mee is a legend. The author of the plugin has spent a lot of time with me, by e-mail, Jabber and Skype, accepting bugfixes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[8,32,33,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}