{"id":2407,"date":"2016-10-31T15:19:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T22:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2016-10-31T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T22:19:36","slug":"pptp-on-lubuntu-with-purevpn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2016\/10\/pptp-on-lubuntu-with-purevpn\/","title":{"rendered":"PPTP on Lubuntu with PureVPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having problems getting PPTP to work with PureVPN on a Lubuntu VM.  I followed PureVPN&#8217;s directions, but only one of the four VPNs I created actually worked.  The configuration appeared to be identical, based on what the user interface was telling me.<\/p>\n<p>When I looked at the VPN configuration files in <tt>\/etc\/NetworkManager\/system-connections<\/tt>, I found a discrepancy.  The VPN that worked contained three entries under <tt>[vpn]<\/tt> that were missing from the other files:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"bash\">\r\n[vpn]\r\nrefuse-chap=yes\r\nrefuse-eap=yes\r\nrefuse-pap=yes\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Once I added these entries, the PPTP connections worked as expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having problems getting PPTP to work with PureVPN on a Lubuntu VM. I followed PureVPN&#8217;s directions, but only one of the four VPNs I created actually worked. The configuration appeared to be identical, based on what the user &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2016\/10\/pptp-on-lubuntu-with-purevpn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,285,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-network","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}