Comments on: How To: Cisco VPN Client On Ubuntu

By: Loloto

Loloto — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:53:58 +0000

Thank you for this post, it works fine for me, but I get the following error when I try to connect. “The profile specified could not be read.”

By: suskun

suskun — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:55:43 +0000

HI, i followed directions for 8.04 and installed successfully, now im having an issue with computer crashing after about 10-15 min of use of vpn connect + rdesktop.

anyone else experiencing this issue?

By: Zupiks

Zupiks — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:51:48 +0000

I got exactly the same problem, how did you solve it?

By: Joyeria en plata

Joyeria en plata — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:35:54 +0000

Sometimes you need to go a step further in setting up vpnc on a linux box – and decrypt a group secret from within a cisco pcf file.

By: jaynarayan

jaynarayan — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:57:17 +0000

I installed succesfully without any sort of troubles. Bad-luck, during vpnclient connect *.pcf command it is showing “the profile specified could not be read”. I tried various possible way like changing the permission and providing the absolute path, but no hope same error repeated.

I show there are few post with same issue. Did any one solved it out ? Any help is great help for me. Thanks

Jaynarayan

By: cisco vpn

cisco vpn — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:41:38 +0000

Sometimes you need to go a step further in setting up vpnc on a linux box – and decrypt a group secret from within a cisco pcf file. There is an example under http://www.spiration.co.uk/post/1293/ which shows how to compile and use the cisco-decrypt.c utility. I have used this approach in the past when taking corporate vpn profiles, where you don’t necessarily know the plaintext group secret.

By: Guzel sozler

Guzel sozler — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:45:20 +0000

Worked like a charm …first time …Ubuntu 7.10!

By: hacı

hacı — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:47:23 +0000

Thanks much!

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By: Austin

Austin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:02:56 +0000

This solution solved my issue: http://www.lamnk.com/blog/computer/cisco-vpn-client-freezes-system-with-dual-core-cpu/

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By: Sohbet

Sohbet — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:54:02 +0000

Worked like a charm …first time …Ubuntu 7.10!
The last I tried I got bogged down and gave up… Thanks!

By: chat

chat — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:05:38 +0000

Hi,
I get following error when I try to install vpn
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic’
CC [M] /home/rahuld/vpnclient/linuxcniapi.o
In file included from /home/rahuld/vpnclient/Cniapi.h:15,
from /home/rahuld/vpnclient/linuxcniapi.c:30:
/home/rahuld/vpnclient/GenDefs.h:113: error: conflicting types for ‘uintptr_t’
include/linux/types.h:40: error: previous declaration of ‘uintptr_t’ was here
make[2]: *** [/home/rahuld/vpnclient/linuxcniapi.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/rahuld/vpnclient] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic’
make: *** [default] Error 2
Failed to make module “cisco_ipsec.ko”.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:11:43 +0000

The issue seems to be related to a kernel/cisco vpn issue. I get this as well on fedora 11. The vpn client worked well on ubuntu 9.04 but that has an older kernel. In my searching various forums, its definitely a kernel issue

By: Oleg Frayman

Oleg Frayman — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:15:45 +0000

Have the same problem, have a lenovo T400 laptop… anyone knows why this is happening?