A client of mine mentioned he wasn’t able to access his mapped drives over the VPN. I remotely connected to his PC and noticed if I pinged hostname.domain.local it resolves to 208.68.139.38. I confirmed he was connected to the VPN and I could ping the IP of the PC directly. I did a quick lookup…
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Connecting to a Windows PPTP VPN from Ubuntu 10.04
If you’d like to connect to a Windows PPTP VPN here is a howto to make it happen. You need to have Ubuntu 10.04 if not you need to apt-get some packages that are not installed by default. Click ‘System’ -> ‘Preferences’ -> ‘Network Connections’ Click the ‘VPN’ tab Leave ‘Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)’ selected…