How to connect android Device to PPTP VPN

Question

I have create a PPTP VPN server using ubuntu's guide .

Now I have:



My problem now is that my android phone could not connect to the pptp which I created. When i try to enter the username and password then hit connect , the only message i have is Connecting... but afterwards is Unsuccessful.

So I searched and found this link for general overview on how to connect to my PPTP VPN. I also came here but I still cant get my phone connected to the VPN. I have exactly followed what ubuntu's guide is saying, and I don't know now what to do, to achieve my goal. Please give some link or a guide that should I do so that my android phone will be able to connect to my PPTP VPN.

syslog of the server

Aug 26 14:44:50 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pptpd[31320]: CTRL: Client 192.168.1.27 control connection started
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pptpd[31320]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE)
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pppd[31321]: Plugin /usr/lib/pptpd/pptpd-logwtmp.so loaded.
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pppd[31321]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pppd[31321]: Using interface ppp0
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pppd[31321]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/24
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name NetworkManager[969]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0)
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name NetworkManager[969]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0): no ifupdown configuration found.
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name NetworkManager[969]: <warn> /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0: couldn't determine device driver; ignoring...
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pppd[31321]: peer from calling number 192.168.1.27 authorized
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pppd[31321]: MPPE required, but MS-CHAP[v2] nor EAP-TLS auth are performed.
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pppd[31321]: Connection terminated.
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name NetworkManager[969]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices removed (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0)
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pppd[31321]: Exit.
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pptpd[31320]: GRE: read(fd=6,buffer=7f2daa2874a0,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error = Input/output error, usually caused by unexpected termination of pppd, check option syntax and pppd logs
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pptpd[31320]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed (pty,gre)=(6,7)
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pptpd[31320]: CTRL: Reaping child PPP[31321]
Aug 26 14:44:51 jameshwart-System-Product-Name pptpd[31320]: CTRL: Client 192.168.1.27 control connection finished

syslog of the client

Sent control packet type is 1 'Start-Control-Connection-Request'
Aug 26 14:45:17 felman-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M pptp[10347]: nm-pptp-service-10324 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:739]: Received Start Control Connection Reply
Aug 26 14:45:17 felman-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M pptp[10347]: nm-pptp-service-10324 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:773]: Client connection established.
Aug 26 14:45:18 felman-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M pptp[10347]: nm-pptp-service-10324 log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 7 'Outgoing-Call-Request'
Aug 26 14:45:18 felman-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M pptp[10347]: nm-pptp-service-10324 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:858]: Received Outgoing Call Reply.
Aug 26 14:45:18 felman-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M pptp[10347]: nm-pptp-service-10324 log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:897]: Outgoing call established (call ID 0, peer's call ID 21504).
Aug 26 14:45:18 felman-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M pppd[10328]: CHAP authentication succeeded
Aug 26 14:45:19 felman-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M pppd[10328]: MPPE 128-bit stateless compression e

options.pptp file

###############################################################################
# $Id: options.pptp,v 1.3 2006/03/26 23:11:05 quozl Exp $
#
# Sample PPTP PPP options file /etc/ppp/options.pptp
# Options used by PPP when a connection is made by a PPTP client.
# This file can be referred to by an /etc/ppp/peers file for the tunnel.
# Changes are effective on the next connection.  See "man pppd".
#
# You are expected to change this file to suit your system.  As
# packaged, it requires PPP 2.4.2 or later from http://ppp.samba.org/
# and the kernel MPPE module available from the CVS repository also on
# http://ppp.samba.org/, which is packaged for DKMS as kernel_ppp_mppe.
###############################################################################

# Lock the port
lock

# Authentication
# We don't need the tunnel server to authenticate itself
noauth

# We won't do PAP, EAP, CHAP, or MSCHAP, but we will accept MSCHAP-V2
# (you may need to remove these refusals if the server is not using MPPE)
refuse-pap
refuse-eap
refuse-chap
refuse-mschap

# Compression
# Turn off compression protocols we know won't be used
nobsdcomp
nodeflate

# Encryption
# (There have been multiple versions of PPP with encryption support,
# choose with of the following sections you will use.  Note that MPPE
# requires the use of MSCHAP-V2 during authentication)

# http://ppp.samba.org/ the PPP project version of PPP by Paul Mackarras
# ppp-2.4.2 or later with MPPE only, kernel module ppp_mppe.o
# {{{
# Require MPPE 128-bit encryption
#require-mppe-128
# }}}

# http://polbox.com/h/hs001/ fork from PPP project by Jan Dubiec
# ppp-2.4.2 or later with MPPE and MPPC, kernel module ppp_mppe_mppc.o
# {{{
# Require MPPE 128-bit encryption
mppe required,stateless
# }}}

Solution 1

thanks to you all but i solve it by checking my pptpd-options file and change
#require-mschap-v2 to require-mschap-v2
#require-mppe-128 to require-mppe-128

i have also change ,removing # like this

refuse-pap

refuse-chap

refuse-mschap

newpeople update:

And be sure to remove the noauth option. In his case because it is before the require-mppe-128 and require-mschap-v2 it has no effect but if you still cant make it happen check for noauth and remove it.

Solution 2

I know this is an old question and this may not be applicable for this case but a simple solution I have found for vpn connection issues on android is to make sure power saving mode is turned off. I looked all over the internet to figure this out and discovered it by accident. Hope it helps someone else. I was using Betternet which is a great VPN service but it would not connect. I turned power saving mode off and it connected instantly.

Comments

[jameshwart lopez]

thank you for your answer.i updated my question with a little information of Unsuccessful.

[jameshwart lopez]

Thanks sir .. i updated my question with the error syslog

[Chris Tsui]

answer updated! You'd better paste your options.pptp.

[jameshwart lopez]

i havent gone that far. ill try to find ways about it. anyway i have updated the question with the options.pptp file