PPTP VPN using VPN start script
For Internet access you will need a PPTP VPN client. Starting with SuSE 10.0, Fedora Core 5 and all Debian based distributions, a pptp is included or can be installed. Please check your packet manager for a packet pptp or pptp-linux and install it.
For example on debian based Linux distributions as user root
apt-get install pptp-linux net-tools
or using fedora
sudo yum install pptp
Since the installation is very different, please take a look at the pptp client documentation on http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/. Please check this page or a distribution specific page, if you need additional help.
After installing the pptp client, you need to start a VPN connection. Since some special routes are necessary, we have written a shell script, which creates all necessary steps to build up a VPN connection:
The script needs to be stored onto your computer. You need to edit user name and password using a text editor. The user name can be found in the e-mail you received on registration at https://startup.stw-bonn.de. The password is the one you have chosen on sign up.
################################################## ### change this to your username and password ### ################################################## USERNAME="USERNAME" NETPASSWORD="PASSWORT"
After editing the file, you need to set the script to be executable and start the script as user root.
chmod 755 vpn--bonn.sh ./vpn--bonn.sh start
If everything is working fine, you will get a positive feedback from the script after some seconds.
If not please start the VPN connection by calling
./vpn--bonn.sh start debug
You will then see additional debug output, which can help diagnosing the error.