[vpn-help] Using Windows installer VPN profile on Linux

Alexis La Goutte alexis.lagoutte at gmail.com
Sat May 9 11:52:23 CDT 2015


Hi,

Please don't forget to add vpn-help to CC

You have access to Access VPN ? you can export the configuration on this
tool...

Regards,

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Sotires Eleftheriou <sotires at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The company didn't give me a .vpn file. They gave me  a Windows installer
> (.msi)  file.
>
> Regarrds
>
> On 9 May 2015 at 18:31, Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the VPN profile (.vpn file) work for Windows and Linux...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Sotires Eleftheriou <sotires at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A company I work with has given me the Shrewsoft profile to connect to
>>> the company VPN in the form of a Windows installer file .msi
>>> When I open it on a Windows PC with Shrewsoft installed, it sets up a
>>> profile to connect to the company VPN and works fine.
>>>
>>> Is there any way of using it to create a profile on my workhorse Linux
>>> (Ubuntu) machine?
>>> I have installed the Shrewsoft VPN access manager on the Linux machine
>>> and have tried entering the profile by hand. But of course I cannot enter
>>> the client pre-shared key.
>>>
>>> I have tried to do this using Wine, but it doesn't work.
>>>
>>> Any other ideas anybody? Maybe copy one of the files from the Windows
>>> machine ?
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>
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