Juniper setup on 12.04
I have a laptop with Windows XP and Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bits). Until now, I used Windows XP to connect to a Juniper VPN but now I'd like to try it with Linux. I read the mad scientist walkthrough (including the sun java part) but I can't run the setup. I get the popup that ask me if I'm sure I want to run the applet but then, nothing.
mad-scientist says it's probably a C runtime lib problem and suggests to use his script with -nojava but he doesn't say how to install Network Connect in the first place. Any idea?
Thanks for any suggestion!
Laurian
PS: I have: Ubuntu 12.04 32bits Java from Sun 1.6.0.32 Firefox 12 xterm (I think it was suggested somehwere)
The latest version of openjdk and icedtea plugin work with Juniper VPN. Removing older and other versions of Java may also help.
See Could anyone provide a step by step for getting juniper netconnect and citrix?
This is one place where I found command line works better than the Ubuntu Software Center
First remove older versions of Java, both Oracle (Sun) and OpenJDK. For example, if you have OpenJDK 6 installed, type in a terminal:
sudo apt-get remove openjdk-6-jdk icedtea-6-plugin
Remove the Sun Java as well. If you have installed just the JRE, rather than JDK change the commands accordingly. Then install the OpenJDK-7 and corresponding plugin by:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk icedtea-7-plugin
Open Firefox and test the version of Java is being used by going to this site http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp
Note: As of Chrome 35 , the Java support for the Chrome on Linux has been discontinued. You have to use Firefox to make Java (and therefore Network Connect) work.
If you see version 7 is running, you are ready to try Juniper VPN. If not you may have to remove the other version of Java. Hope this helps.
Update: for 64bit Ubuntu 12.04 to 13.10
From 7.3 onwards, Juniper SA devices support 64-bit Ubuntu for Network Connect.
First, install the 64bit jre/jdk and icedtea
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre icedtea-7-plugin
Second, install the 32bit jre
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre:i386
Note, do not install the 32bit icedtea. Make sure the 64bit is the default java. As long as the 32bit jre exists, Juniper will find the files it needs and run.
Tested on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit.
See Juniper Network Knowledge-base for details.
Update 2: for 64bit Ubuntu 14.04
Network Connect is looks for update-alternatives in /usr/sbin/ and there seems to be no symlink pointing to the right directory like 13.10 had.
In addition to the steps above for 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04-13.10, add symlink to /usr/sbin/ by:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/update-alternatives /usr/sbin/
The 14.04 issue is explained in more detail at How to install Juniper VPN on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?
I never got this working with just plain Java in my browser. Luckily, there's an other option here: http://mad-scientist.us/juniper.html :D
Of course, the best thing would be that it was all supported in Network Manager via the network-manager-vpnc package.
The open source OpenConnect VPN client now has support for Juniper. See http://www.infradead.org/openconnect/juniper.html
Update for 14.04 Trusty Tahr (64-bit)
First run with Network Connect on 14.04 resulted a failure and Network Connect just complained about missing 32-bit libraries. My NC version is 7.4R6. I did have all the libraries installed and openjdk-7-jre:i386 installed.
Digging a little bit deeper revealed that Network Connect is using update-alternatives listing to decide if 32-bit jre is installed.
/usr/sbin/alternatives command not found
Command = /bin/sh -c /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display java 2>&1 | grep -v "/bin/sh:" | grep ^/ | cut -d " " -f 1 | tr " " " "
However it's looking update-alternatives from /usr/sbin/ and there seems to be no symlink pointing to the right directory like 13.10 had. So adding symlink to /usr/sbin/ helped.
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/update-alternatives /usr/sbin/