Ok, creating a file:
I will give you the long answer for future reference.
You need to use an editor. The standard one in Ubuntu is gedit. You start it with the terminal command
to open a file in the directory you are in
to open one in another directory
Code:
gedit /path/to/file
if you do that for one that doesn't exist, it will create it.
On top of that, files in /etc belong to root, and such config files often have to belong to root to work properly, so you have to start gedit as root. Use "gksu" for this, i.e. put it in front of the command.
this gives you
Code:
gksu gedit /etc/ppp/peers/YOUR_COMPANY
to create what you need.
authors of these steps leave little things out that trip up noobs such as myself.
I sometimes wonder if that isn't a bit deliberate, to make sure people find out a bit about what they are doing before they dive into the depths of their system...
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