NetworkManager 0.7 Import function does not recognize VPN configuration information exported from earlier versions of NM

[Alexey Balmashnov]

Binary package hint: network-manager

Intrepid,
network-manager: 0.7~~svn20080818t061112+eni0-0ubuntu1

I have a VPN configuration file exported earlier in NM0.6, when I successfully configured my VPN connection via PPTP.

When I tried to import it in the current NM, I got error:
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Cannot import VPN connection

The file 'Campus.pcf' could not be read or does not contain recognized VPN connection information

Error: unknown PPTP file extension.
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After changing an extension to .conf (which is used in the NM 0.7 Export function) I got another error:
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Cannot import VPN connection

The file 'Campus.conf' could not be read or does not contain recognized VPN connection information

Error: unknown error.
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Expected behavior:
The configuration file recognized and Imported, VPN configuration is ready for use.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

0.7 vpn support was quite new when i last uploaded it. There have been substantial improvements in the meantime. Please test when the next upload when i make the next snapshot available and comment her whether that helped. Thanks!

[Alexey Balmashnov (a.balmashnov)]

No improvements in NM 0.7~~svn20080908t183521+eni0-0ubuntu2

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 07:28:38AM -0000, Alexey Balmashnov wrote:
> No improvements in NM 0.7~~svn20080908t183521+eni0-0ubuntu2
>

could you please file this bug in bugzilla.gnome.org against NM? and
let us know about the gnome bug id?

 - Alexander

[Alexey Balmashnov (a.balmashnov)]

Filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551940

[Tien Nguyen (tienhn)]

I got the same problem also the export function does not work either.

[Xamusk (ronanpaixao)]

Neither export nor import work right now.
It appears import has been changed to parse an openvpn config file, instead of NM's own format.

However, even that doesn't work (it imports incomplete information)

[Xamusk (ronanpaixao)]

This is probably related to Bug #264144

[erleperle (erleperle)]

Hi

In ubuntu 8.04 I was able to import the file below. In ubuntu 8.10 neither import or export works.
The setting "X-NM-Routes=10.100.0.0/16" had the effect (i think?) of routing my internet traffic from home out of the company network.

I have not been able to set this setting following any of the advices above.
I have added

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/ubuntu intrepid main

And I stille cannot change the routing or import/export my vpn.file. I wonder if I am using the wrong client from the deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/ubuntu intrepid main.

Its a minor problem as I can get my vpn client to work. That is I can acces my company network with the default vpn client in ubuntu 8.10

Any ideas

cheers
Peter

[main]
Description=MyCompany
Connection-Type=pptp
PPTP-Server=vpn.MyCompany.dk
Use-Peer-DNS=yes
Encrypt-MPPE=no
Encrypt-MPPE-128=yes
Compress-MPPC=no
Compress-Deflate=no
Compress-BSD=no
PPP-Lock=yes
Auth-Peer=no
Refuse-EAP=no
Refuse-CHAP=no
Refuse-MSCHAP=no
MTU=1416
MRU=1416
LCP-Echo-Failure=10
LCP-Echo-Interval=10
PPP-Custom-Options=
Peer-DNS-Over-Tunnel=yes
X-NM-Routes=10.100.0.0/16
Use-Routes=yes

[Paul Kelly (paul-kelly)]

in 8.10, I also cannot import a . pcf file created in 8.04. I

[erleperle (erleperle)]

Still able to configure manually. Export does not work: Error: Unknown error

[erleperle (erleperle)]

Sorry, my last comment reffered to the status on Ubuntu 10.04. I don't know what version of NetworkManager

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

At that point in time PPTP didn't even support import. Closing as Invalid.

In newer releases we've implemented this, and AFAICT it seems to work properly.

If you're still running into such an issue please file a new bug report, since it's most likely not the same behavior, error messages, or configuration at all. Thanks!