Need help connecting to VPN

[Arthur Pemberton]

Hello Guys,

I have the need to connect to a Windows VPN I think getting the
requred details for the actual connection should be too hard. It is to
my school network. They distribute a Windows .exe which does all the
configuring, so details are not immediately obvious. But I want the
VPN to start right after my inet comes up. And most importantly, I
only want IPs in the schools IP block to route thoguh it.

Generic instructions will do, I should be able to fill in the details.

Thanks.

Arthur

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[Patrick Doyle]

Look for pptpclient (try
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-fedora-core-5.phtml).  That
has worked (mostly) for me to connect to our windows based VPN at
work.

--wpd

[Dan Book]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>  Hello Guys,
>
>  I have the need to connect to a Windows VPN I think getting the
>  requred details for the actual connection should be too hard. It is to
>  my school network. They distribute a Windows .exe which does all the
>  configuring, so details are not immediately obvious. But I want the
>  VPN to start right after my inet comes up. And most importantly, I
>  only want IPs in the schools IP block to route thoguh it.
>
>  Generic instructions will do, I should be able to fill in the details.
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  Arthur
>  
If you use Gnome, you can also download the NetworkManager-vpnc plugin 
for NetworkManager, and enable the NetworkManager and 
NetworkManagerDispatcher services on startup instead of network, for 
runlevel 5 (system-config-services). Then (after rebooting or at least 
restart NM) it's as simple as connecting to the network with the 
NetworkManager applet menu, then going to VPN Connections->Configure 
VPN, and entering the info there.
vpnc is only for Cisco-compatible VPNs, afaik.
-Dan