On 12/10/18 1:01 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 7/12/18 9:10 am, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 12/7/18 4:33 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> Thanks Ed, I'll try that again. >>> >>> I am using a vpn called Slickvpn. I did download *.ovpn files for >>> each location but I >>> didn't issue the command you mentioned. I manually created the vpn >>> definitions in >>> network manager and manually populated the information in those >>> definitions by manually >>> reading the .ovpn files and transferring the information contained in >>> them into the >>> definitions, plus the "vendor" supplied a windows client that enabled >>> selection of the >>> site to connect to and supplied all the necessary configuration, that >>> I also used to get >>> the configuration for the networkmanager definitions. As it has been >>> over 12 months >>> since I last used them, which would have been in F27, what I don't >>> know at this stage is >>> whether things have changed with all their servers or whether F28 >>> changes are >>> causing issues with this particular vpn. >> There is no need to "manually" add the connection in Network Manager. >> Network Manager has >> an "import" function which will do things for you. One thing it does >> is put the certs in >> the proper location. This ensures that the selinux context is correct >> for them. >> > I've renamed my existing definitions to import the configuration, and in > doing the rename I noticed that the UDP port specified is now different > to the ports their windows client provides as selections. Their windows > client provides an auto setting for the port which keeps connecting and > disconnecting without ever providing a static connection. The port that > did work for one of the two sites I tried, being 8888, was not the same > port in the linux definition that worked 12 months ago, being 443. > > I tried creating a vpn definition from Networkmanager in KDE by creating > the definition via the import function, but that doesn't work for my > situation at the moment. My OVPN files are on my windows partition, and > when I navigate to /mnt where the mount points are, the import dialog > shows me all the directories in /mnt except the three windows > directories even though those mount points are currently mounted. All > the directories in /mnt are owned by root and world readable. How do I > find out why the Networkmanager dialog won't show them? In order to walk down a directory tree, the directories have to have execute privileges, not merely read privileges (e.g. "chmod -R w+x /mnt" should do it). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "You think that's tough? Try herding cats!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
