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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

How to setup HMA VPN via PPTP on Ubuntu


Instructions

  1. On the bar on the top right click on the connections icon
  2. Click on modification of connections
  3. Go to the VPN tab
  4. On the right click add click "PPTP"
  5. OK
  6. Name of the connection hma and maybe the name of the server
  7. Enter the IP adress of the PPTP server as "Gateway"
  8. Enter your HMA account username and your PPTP password
    (Get the PPTP server IPs and your PPTP password from
    the VPN control panel @ https://vpn.hidemyass.com under "PPTP servers")
  9. Click on "advanced"
  10. Enable "use point to point encryption (mmpe)"
  11. Disable "allow bsd data compression"
  12. Disable "allow deflate dat compression"
  13. Disable "use tcp header compresion"
  14. Leave disable "send ppp echo packet"
  15. Apply
  16. Apply
  17. Go back to the connection icon
  18. Left click
  19. Vpn Connection
  20. Click on your VPN. That's all!

Example video:
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Screenshots

1. Configure your VPN:




2. Add new connection:

  
3. Enter your credentials and server's IP address(Get the PPTP server IPs and your PPTP password from
the VPN control panel @ https://vpn.hidemyass.com under "PPTP servers")

  

4. Here you can use custom DNS if you like, I'm using Google Public DNS:

  
5. Turn all off except MPPE:


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Remember, it's important not to tick "Available to all users".

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