Setting up Privateinternetacess on Kubuntu

[michel]

Greetings,

I have purchased a one year subscription of Privateinternetaccess. I managed to set it up fine on the Window and Mac machines, but I am having problems setting it to work on my Kubuntu 12.04.

I installed open vpn and used the provided setup help to set up the vpn in network manager. It is listed in network manager but it is not connected and I do not know how to connect it or whether the setup is wrong. Their online setup sucks!

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Michel

[claydoh]

Hmm I use them myself, for about a year, but using 13.04/13.10, with the newer KDE networkmanager. I have no problem connecting to any of their servers.

In previous KDE versions, I could not get it to automatically connect, but it still connected via the tray applet.

I wonder if the networkmanager in 12.04 is lacking in good vpn support? (I've not used PIA in 12.04)

I used their setup script to get it all working. What did you do to set it up?

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[Buddlespit]

do you have 'networkmanager-<vpn flavor> (ie- I use 'networkmanager-openvpn', used by ibvpn) installed?

[michel]

I used the following setup as sugested by their support department and it works:

Linux VPN Setup Ubuntu Linux 10.10: VPN PPTP Setup
It is required to use the Username and Password generated from our GENERATING A PASSWORD FOR PPTP/L2TP/SOCKS guide.
Click on the Network Manager in your top panel
Go to VPN Connections -> Configure VPN
Click Add
In the prompt, select Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
In the Connection name: field, enter Private Internet Access
In the Gateway: field, enter us-west.privateinternetaccess.com[*]
In the User name: field, enter your supplied username
In the Password: field, enter your supplied password
Click on the Advanced button
In the PPTP Advanced Options window, ensure Use Point-to-Point encryption (MPPE) is selected
Click Ok
Click on the Network Manager in your top panel
Go to VPN Connections -> Private Internet Access

Thanks,

Michel

[claydoh]

If you paid for PIA, then you don't have to use the not-as-good PPTP type of vpn connection, you do want to use openvpn if possible

https://www.privateinternetaccess.co...nvpn_installer

[michel]

I would love to but when I click on "Download the OPENVPN UBUNTU INSTALLER" I get a text file and I don't know how to proceed from there on.

Thanks,

Michel

[claydoh]

Ahh yes, that is the script. You save that by right-clicking on the link and using the save-link-as dialog, make sure it is saved as install_ubuntu.sh, then follow the directions given. The easiest way is to use dolphin to navigate to the file, hit your f4 key to open a terminal window attached to the file browser, and then run the command like so:

sudo sh ./install_ubuntu.sh

[michel]

Fantastic! Thanks.

Just a note for those who want to try this method, resetting network manager takes some time and your computer will lock during that process. You will also get an error message (if your are connected through a wireless connection?) but the install will finish eventually.

Michel

[michel]

Just a thought. Can we write up a batch file / deb that includes the script and that can run automatically? I would send this to PIA to make for an easier Linux experience.

Michel