Cisco VPM Client - Unable to Read Profile

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Greetings:

I am trying to seutp a VPN connection to my office from my Mandrake 10
system. I compiled and installed the newest Cisco VPN client software -
vpnclient-linux-4.0.4.A-k9 - and am running it.

When I run I get...

Cisco Systems VPN Client Version 4.0.4 (A)
Copyright (C) 1998-2003 Cisco Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Client Type(s): Linux
Running on: Linux 2.6.3-7mdk #1 Wed Mar 17 15:56:42 CET 2004 i686

The profile specified could not be read.


....I googled this and did find one entry:
http://www.filesite.org/link/go.php?id=22

AKA: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl [...] wwindow=1&
threadm=wEIb8.1551%247Q6.81133%40news1.east.cox.net&rnum=1&
prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dlinux%2520vpn%2520client%2520could%2520not
%2520read%2520profile%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26newwi

It suggested I move the .pcf file (which I use under NT 5) to
my /etc/CiscoSystemsVPNClient/Profiles directory. I did this using
midnight commander as root. I then launch (from the /usr/local/bin
directory) ./vpnclient
connect /etc/CiscoSystemsVPNClient/Profiles/isdprofile.pcf

and get the same error.

What gives? I've also tried it with the user and pwd options to no avail.

Also, any idea why it installed in /usr/local/bin? Shouldn't it have
installed in a directory like /apps/ciscovpn ?

Could this be a permissions issue? I don't want to have to become root all
the time to do this.

K
g2004 at g2prod.cotse.net

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