Whilst I am not a fan of Juniper Network Connect in the last few
years I have had to connect to several networks that use
it. The biggest problem with it is that it is a combination
of Java and a 32bit C library which will not work when executed
with a 64bit version of Java.
There are other ways of connecting such as the Mad
Scientist script but if you use things like two-factor
authentication this will not work. So I brought together
things I have learnt from web postings about getting it to work
in Ubuntu and have created these steps. They work in Fedora
17 and should work in 16 too:
Step 1We need to install OpenJDK Java, we also need xterm for the
root password during installation:
sudo yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk.i686 java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 icedtea-web xterm
Step 2Now we need to tell Java to execute the Juniper …