Comments on: VPN on Ubuntu Linux with Juniper Network Connect

By: Juniper VPN client aka Network Connect on RHEL 6 (x86_64) | Jaime Gago

Juniper VPN client aka Network Connect on RHEL 6 (x86_64) | Jaime Gago — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:15:07 +0000

[...] http://holyarmy.org/2009/06/vpn-on-ubuntu-linux-with-juniper-network-connect/ [...]

By: goliash

goliash — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:33:50 +0000

I will answer to myself Luckily I found a solution. It has to be added one parameter to ncsvc. Description is here: http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB15890 I modified junipernc script and added this to command: -U “https://$HOST/launcher”

By: goliash

goliash — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:58:27 +0000

Unfortunately I have the same problem: ncapp> Failed to connect/authenticate with IVE. Error 10
I run on Kubuntu 11.04 64bit.

By: Mayank Rungta

Mayank Rungta — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:56:43 +0000

I ran into another issue being discussed on the ubuntu thread -

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10913967#post10913967

$ junipernc
Searching for ncsvc in current working directory
Searching for ncsvc in /home/mayankr/.juniper_networks/network_connect done.
Password:
ncapp> Failed to connect/authenticate with IVE. Error 10

Any idea how I can get rid of this error. I am hoping this is the last hurdle to make it work on the 64 bit. I haven’t got it working on 32 bit either but there at least the browser works so no issues. I would love to move to 64 bit if this is fixed.

Thanks in advance,
Mayank

By: gerrys

gerrys — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:09:22 +0000

I have been working with this for years and never got the parameters right. I did this time. I had to go to the login screen and look at the FORM ACTION= URL and put that in the ncsvc lines in the juniperrc. This is something that should go in the config but I thought I’d share it since it worked!
mine looks something like this: “https://myvpnhost.us/dana-na/auth/url_5/login.cgi”
(anonymized…)
Thank you for all your work.

By: Eccentric.Ash

Eccentric.Ash — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:38:48 +0000

A relative noob to Linux, I have been trying to get Network Connect working on 32 bit Ubuntu 10.04 using Firefox 4.0 for the past week with no success. In the process I have read a lot of forums and tried a lot of things.

Here is what my problem was :
1) Login to my company VPN site successfully using username, password1(active directory) password2(RSA pin)
2) Click on the Network Connect “Start” button, the applet loading page comes up for a short time and then takes me back to the previous page without the NC popup.

I tried Mad Scientist’s script (http://mad-scientist.us/juniper.html), which almost got me connected, but authentication failed since our company uses two passwords (active directory and RSA pin). The script was only asking for RSA pin, and I got failure stating “Invalid Credentials”. But this did get the NC popup going.

I read on one of the posts that this issue may be caused by Firefox, so I installed Google Chrome and Voila! it worked perfectly. I see the NC connect popup and am able to access the company intranet on 32 bit Ubuntu without using any fixes.

Also during my reading, I came across this post(http://makefile.com/.plan/2009/10/27/juniper-vpn-64-bit-linux-an-unsolved-mystery) which details how to connect using 64 bit Linux and two passwords. I tried this on a different machine running 64 bit Ubuntu, and it works as well.

I hope this helps.

By: Connecting to SSL VPN in Debian/Ubuntu | Guikubi Pablo Vanwoerkom

Connecting to SSL VPN in Debian/Ubuntu | Guikubi Pablo Vanwoerkom — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:06:47 +0000

[...] Thanks to CraigT’s comment at http://holyarmy.org/2009/06/vpn-on-ubuntu-linux-with-juniper-network-connect/ [...]

By: psypher

psypher — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:15:58 +0000

Try this. http://wireless.siu.edu/install-ubuntu-64.htm

By: CraigT

CraigT — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:12:40 +0000

Same issue as DrDave above – “unable to connect to IVE”. I finally located the cert file. It is .vpn.default.crt in your home directory. Mine hadn’t been updated in almost a year. Deleted that file and ran the script again and a new cert file was created and no connection problem now.
FYI – the connection settings are stored in your home directory in a file called .vpn.default.cfg If you run the ‘junipernc -uninstall’ this file doesn’t get removed – at least on my system it didn’t. So when I ran the junipernc script again (to install everything), I didn’t get all the prompts I thought I should have (since this file was still there). I removed the file, then ran the script again and got all the prompts I expected.

By: Torspo

Torspo — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:52:09 +0000

The server I’m connecting to requires me to log in with an empty password first, then I get an SMS to my phone which I enter to the second screen on the login page. I don’t know where this second password should be entered when connecting using ncsvc or junipernc.