On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 17:25 +0200, Bo Berglund wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:50:59 +0200, Bo Berglund > <bo.berglund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >I have now installed FC4 Final on my PC and my next task is to get a > >VPN channel up to a remote network where the CVS server (Windows 2000) > >resides. > >This network is accessible via Microsoft PPTP VPN protocol so I need > >to set this up on FC4. Earlier I did this on FC3 but it was rather > >involved and I am told that it is more or less included inside FC4, so > >I would like to use that capability if possible. > >But being new to Linux/Fedora (the FC3 was an experiment a few weeks > >ago) I don't know how to find my way around the environment so I > >cannot find this item. All I seem to reach is some config screens > >where I can add more NIC:s, but that is not what I want to do... > > > >If I go here: > >http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-diagnosis.phtml > >they have FC4 on the sidebar but the link lands on an article about > >FC3... The FC3 instructions were cut-and-pasted into a page for FC4 because the FC3 instructions were found to work on FC4. I'll notify the author to change the reference to FC3. > So I went ahead anyway and performed the suggested actions except > before each rpm download/install I first tested with yum and this > worked partly: > > yum install dkms > rpm --install kernel_ppp_mppe-0.0.5-2dkms.noarch.rpm > modprobe ppp-compress-18 && echo success Did this work (the word "success" appeared?)? > yum install pptp > yum install libxml libglade > rpm --install php-pcntl-4.3.10-1.i386.rpm > rpm --install php-gtk-pcntl-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm > rpm --install pptpconfig-20040722-6.noarch.rpm > > For the last 3 I received warnings about DSA key missing and users and > groups missing. > > Now I am stuck at the "run pptpconfig as root" command... > When I enter pptpconfig in the terminal window that I created as user > and then did su - to get to root, the response is: > "command not found" > > This happens on the line following the rpm --install of the pptpconfig > rpm. > > Did I miss something obvious here? You should be able to run pptpconfig as a regular user and be prompted for the root password. There should also be a "PPTP Client" menu option on the gnome "Internet" menu. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
