Dear community

I want to connect to our server in the school, but our stuff only supports M$-Windows and Mac. For OS X for example, they provide the following information:

*** VPN für OS X

Open System Config -> Network -> ADD VPN
type: CISCO IPSec, Server Addrers XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
User-Name, Password, Group-Name, Group-Key

now, I have tried to connect using shrew-ike. But the provided source cann't be compiled under lubuntu 19.10, and the pre-compiled version for debian leads to a core-dumped.

So I looked around and found "charon-cmd". Which I hope I can use.

Problem: I have not found, which switches (options) I have to set to connect to our VPN. Because our IT-Team only supports Windows/Mac, they have not many ideas either.

Has anyone found a way to connect to a VPN using charon-cmd?

Thanks for any help.

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Doesn't network-manager have VPN functionality already?
Unfortunately Lubuntu does not use it by default; try installing network-manager, then see if you can create a new VPN connection. Maybe you have to install some network-manager VPN plugin as well.

Thanks ondoho


I already had installed network-manager. I added network-manager-strongswan (for IKE), network-manager-vpnc and network-manager-vpnc-gnome. I have not found a network-manager-ike, which could possibly connect to our shrew-server (shrew.net). Unfortunately shrew.net did not work on the linux software since 2013 (?); at least, this is the newest linux-client-version I have found.

It helped that far, that I have now new a "Cisco Compatible VPN (vpnc)" menu point, when I create a new VPN connection. I have also found a field "group-name" and "group-password" which are provided by my employer. But when I leave all other values as "default", the connection does not provide a VPN (or does it? I can't see any).

It seams, that the IKE Protocols are not implemented by the Linux-CISCO-VPN-Client?

Any help is welcome.


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Apparently this shrew product does not work with network-manager?
Try this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/9820...r-ubuntu-16-04
(result of a quick web search)

Thanks ondoho

That's what I initially tried (after a deeper web-search), whith no success. The binaries are outdated (lead to core dumped) and the build crashes.

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We have now also davfs.
So solved for me.