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Unable to connect to PPTP VPN with Ubuntu 10.04

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Mar 15, 202618940 views
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Problem

I'm trying to connect to my corporate VPN using a laptop running Ubuntu 10.04. It's a company laptop but as I have chosen to run Linux rather than "a proper" OS, I'm mostly on-my-own as far as getting these things working. Normally that's OK because I am almost always successful - except this probl…

Error Output

Aug 15 22:27:46 pc770-ubu NetworkManager: <info>  Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp'...
Aug 15 22:27:46 pc770-ubu NetworkMana…

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Fix for: Unable to connect to PPTP VPN with Ubuntu 10.04

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I was experiencing the same problem and I think I have it solved. I had checked off "Use this connection only for resources on its network" (click Routes on the IPv4 Settings tab). Once I removed this option, my connection was able to tunnel into my…

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