So the "Users" realm definitely works. However, the VPN client itself seems to be creating a non-routable tunnel which it then proceeds to monitor - attempts to ping the tunnel or IPs in the MSU range fail with an inability to transmit over the tunnel. It also monitors the tunnel, so my attempts to change it fail immediately - it detects a change and then forcibly closes the VPN application. The word on the Ubuntu forums is that there's a newer version of the VPN client available - 6.2, apparently - but it appears to be only available as a download to patch the server side. Does anyone know of a way to get hands on the linux executables for it? (We're running 6.0.something right now.) Thanks, ---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University 517-884-1231 ________________________________ From: Ken Josenhans <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:27:01 -0400 To: Jack Kramer <[log in to unmask]> Cc: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Realm for Juniper VPN? At a guess, try "Users" as the realm. Alternatively, try some sort of null entry. In the Juniper configuration, one has the option of defining multiple realms for different groups of people, but vpn.msu.edu only uses the one default realm, which is "Users". This has never come up before; no realm appears on the signin page because only one realm is in use, I think. Followup to the list if this works, or let me know if it doesn't and I'll poke around further. -- Ken Josenhans Network Management Academic Technology Services Michigan State University [log in to unmask] 517-432-2935 On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:02:59AM -0400, Kramer, Jack wrote: > So it's friday night and I'm here at home fighting the Juniper VPN to get my Ubuntu laptop connected to campus - the issue stems from the fact that the Juniper people wrote the VPN for Red Hat and so you have to use workarounds to get the VPN to work on other (non-rpm) platforms, Ubuntu being a special pain sometimes. I've mostly got it set except that it keeps dying with incorrect credentials because I can't quite seem to figure out what realm I'm supposed to be connecting to. The techbase has proven to be no assistance. Can anyone shed any light? > > Thanks, > ---- > Jack Kramer > Computer Systems Specialist > University Relations, Michigan State University > 517-884-1231