Help with installation of VPN in Raspberry Pi debian

[mapexmbirch]

I am fairly new to the Terminal, I know how to install something from it and that's about it.

I am following a guide that I would give you a link to but I can't because of the spam prevention I guess.
Search for 'howto-configure-ubuntu-fedora-linux-pptp-client' in Google, it's the top link.

I can do

$ sudo apt-get install pptp-linux network-manager-pptp

and

# vi /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

Replacing vi with nano works better than vi.

Then I get stuck at append the line as follows

vivek PPTP VpnPassword *

Do I enter that line in to the file and then save it?
What does append mean?

If some one could help me get through this installation it would be great.
Thanks

[atreyu]

I am following a guide that I would give you a link to but I can't because of the spam prevention I guess.
Search for 'howto-configure-ubuntu-fedora-linux-pptp-client' in Google, it's the top link.

Hi,

I assume you mean this:

Linux configure point to point tunneling PPTP VPN client for Microsoft PPTP vpn server

# vi /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

Replacing vi with nano works better than vi.

Then I get stuck at append the line as follows

vivek PPTP VpnPassword *

Do I enter that line in to the file and then save it?

Yes. Use an editor (vi or nano or joe or whatever), and add a line that looks like their example, substituting your own username and password, I guess.

What does append mean?

It means do not overwrite the file (in this case, /etc/ppp/chap-secrets) if it already exists. You would be adding (appending) a new line, to the file.

[mapexmbirch]

Thanks

I added a line with a username, PPTP and my password. Then exited it with 'ctrl X' and it said save? I pressed 'y' then it had some commands at the bottom one said append and had 'M-A' next to it so I pressed 'ctrl M A' and nano closed taking me back to the terminal.
I think I did it right.

Now it says to:
Create a connection file called /etc/ppp/peers/delhi-idc-01 (replace delhi-idc-01 with your connection name such as office or vpn):

# vi /etc/ppp/peers/delhi-idc-01

How do I create the file? I don't have permission to add a file to /peers/

Thanks again

[mactruck]

How do I create the file? I don't have permission to add a file to /peers/

Thanks again

sudo vi /etc/ppp/peers/delhi-idc-01

I just got a Raspberry Pi and installed Debian. I will see if I can get this to work this week as well.

[mapexmbirch]

Any luck? I have been busy so I haven't tried anything more. Going to now though.

[mactruck]

I was going to try over the weekend but I got busy. I will give it a try today or tomorrow.

[mapexmbirch]

That's cool, I found a link in another forum. Similar to the one in the second post.
pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-debian.phtml
It may help you a bit.