Ubuntu Server setting PPTP client connections

Installing PPTP clients

Install Pptp-linux

Setting up Connection account information

sudo vim/etc/ppp/chap-secrets

Where $login_name is the login name, $password is the login password, $ip if the * is assigned to the server, you can specify it. $server _name is the alias for the service connection and needs to be consistent with the remotename in the actual configuration file

 for authentication using chap# client        server  secret                  IP addresses$login_name        $server _name $password    $ip

To establish the connection profile connection, the file must be in the/etc/ppp/peers directory and can have multiple different connection profiles

sudo vim/etc/ppp/peers/connection

Configuration file connection content, $server _address to the actual connection server address, $login _name as the login user name, remotename the server name

" PPTP $server _address--nolaunchpppd " name $login _nameremotename $server _namerequire-mppe-file /etc/ppp/  Options.pptpipparam $connection

Setting up a PPTP gateway, creating a new configuration file

sudo nano/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/$connection

Type the following, where the network segment settings need to refer to the server settings

#!/bin/bashif"$PPP _ipparam""$connectin" then 192.168.           18.0/  dev $PPP _ifacefi

Set script permissions

sudo chmod +x/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/$connection

Ubuntu Server setting PPTP client connections