Kali VPN

[Lac]

I purchased Earth VPN and tried it worked fine on my OS X, but when I tried to use it on Kali, I ran into a problem. I installed all of the files necessary for adding VPNs and then added a few from Earth VPN and from www.justfreevpn.com. I'm positive the VPNs are configured correctly, but when I click on the VPN to connect, nothing happens. I'm not connected to it, and this happens to all of the VPNs - Earth VPN and justfreevpn. In addition, there is no error message or any kind of message at all!. My IP has not changed and the disconnect from VPN option is still greyed out. I've tried this with both OpenVPN and PPTP. To refresh, the VPN is set up correctly and all of the necessary files are there. The problem cannot be the VPN, so please do not say I need to check my gateway or to ensure that some box is checked.


- Lactem

[proxx]

I purchased Earth VPN and tried it worked fine on my OS X, but when I tried to use it on Kali, I ran into a problem. I installed all of the files necessary for adding VPNs and then added a few from Earth VPN and from www.justfreevpn.com. I'm positive the VPNs are configured correctly, but when I click on the VPN to connect, nothing happens. I'm not connected to it, and this happens to all of the VPNs - Earth VPN and justfreevpn. In addition, there is no error message or any kind of message at all!. My IP has not changed and the disconnect from VPN option is still greyed out. I've tried this with both OpenVPN and PPTP. To refresh, the VPN is set up correctly and all of the necessary files are there. The problem cannot be the VPN, so please do not say I need to check my gateway or to ensure that some box is checked.


- Lactem

I feel like I'm repeating myself over and over but here goes;
Have you ever worked with linux before ?
Do you realize that there is logging and debuging ?
Have you tried it manually instead of osx like mouse clicky clicky?
Console output?

"Does not work" does not allow us to provide you with anything useful.

[lucid]

I'd just like to add that you probably shouldn't be using an insecure protocol like PPTP. With that being said the only other thing I have to say is that you must have configured something incorrectly or don't really know what you are doing. Without specific details(error messages, config files, specific steps) there isn't shit we could tell you except that you did something wrong.

It's a scientific formula really. Ever question yields an equal and opposite response. So if you have a shitty uninformative question, you'll get a shitty uninformative response.

Here I'll start you off. How do you connect to the internet normally?

[Lac]

I only tried PPTP because it wasn't connecting with OpenVPN. Literally, the problem is it doesn't work. I followed this tutorial after doing this one. (Just with the first commands to run from terminal, but nothing else after that.) Everything is configured exactly how the setup from EarthVPN's website tells me to. (http://www.earthvpn.com/how-to-configure-openvpn-on-ubuntu-linux/) Normally, I just click on the signal bar and then my network. Then I type my password.

[lucid]

The problem is never as simple as, "it doesn't work." There's a reason why. It doesn't just fail for no reason. Run wireshark when you try to connect, see what information you can get from that.

[Lac]

Alright I'll try that out. I was thinking that maybe the reason is that Kali doesn't allow VPNs or that you can't use a VPNs on Kali if you're using VirtualBox.

[lucid]

*lucid palms face

This whole time we've been talking about this you didn't once mention that you were in vbox. See, that's important information. Now I'm sure there's a ton of info you left out simply because you didn't think it's important.

Good luck.

[proxx]

Thread closed due to lack of quality.