Connect vpn vista

Your help is appreciated. Nothing posted here works for me. Have discovered that the 'Destination Name' may be crucial. I had assumed that it was like XP and that this was where you gave the connection a name. When I put in one of the logon names as the 'Destination Name', hey presto, once the normal username and password name were entered, connected!

Doesn't seem to like you including a domain name though. Still not totally there though as, although I can see all of the other computers and shared files on the network, I can't get Outlook to connect. Second problem is getting booted off every ten minutes or so. Vista machine hangs at "Verifying username and password Is there any unofficial connection manager which can manually connect to a VPN? So, we went into the properties of the VPN connection on the Vista machine and looked at the security tab.

We changed the radio button to "Advanced custom settings ", and pressed the "Settings Once in there, we changed "Data encryption" to "Optional encryption connect even if no encryption ". We were then able to connect, but you don't get that warm, fuzzy feeling when it gives you a warning that says the data won't be encrypted.

The previous sounds a plausable solution and may be my issue although I do want to state that this is a real overlook my Microsoft! I have been going round in cricles with the verifying "user name and password" vista vpn issue. I have a mobile vista work force move to spain from uk. Can you please collect RAS trace files and send them to rrasblog microsoft. This is rather annoying We all seem to experience the SAME problem Have you found any similarities in your RAS traces?

Any solutions? Will Vista SP1 fix this backward compatibility issue? Help, please. BTW: I do same thing in win2k, winxp,win2k3, everything works fine, in these platform, I can establish a pptp connection to self I also used the pptpsrv. The result is: 1, Run pptpsrv. So, it seems that the vista's pptp client can't send any GRE packet to But in the same Env.

GRE packet to Warning This workaround may make a computer or a network more vulnerable to attack by malicious users or by malicious software such as viruses. We do not recommend this workaround but are providing this information so that you can implement this workaround at your own discretion.

Use this workaround at your own risk. Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall the operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk. Note Use this method if the server computer does not support bit RC4 encryption.

To provide support for the bit encryption levels and for the bit encryption levels on a client computer that is running Windows Vista, you must configure the AllowPPTPWeakCrypto registry entry. To do this, follow these steps: 1.

Click Start , and then type regedit in the Start Search box. In the search results list, right-click regedit , click Run as Administrator , and then click Continue in the User Account Control dialog box. Create the following registry entry under the previous subkey. Exit Registry Editor. Restart the computer. I have 2 Vista POC's that have the same problem. We can connect using XP but no luck with Vista. I have the same problem. Also, you cannot get Vista to correct the problem by statically assigning the addresses since it will still use the addresses provided by the server side before using the static addresses.

For example, if you are establishing a VPN connection to a network that uses a network of The truth is that you actually are still connected to both networks, but your routing table is now corrupt.

In this example, the routing table should have among other entries two routes that look like this likely with different gatweway and interface addresses :. And, when you establish the second connection, instead of getting a second entry, the first one is overwritten like this:. To correct this, even after establishing both VPN connections, you can delete the Once you do that, you will immediately regain access to both remote networks.

Has anyone other than myself reported these issues to Microsoft? I think the only way we can get them to fix their broken product is for all of us to call and complain like I have. The more voices that are heard, the more pressure Microsoft be under to fix what they broke. I can manually work around these issues, but I have my clients switching all of their field reps to Linux on their laptops that only need VPN and Remote Desktop functionality.

So far, out of my clients, Microsoft has lost over sales of Vista to Linux because of this. Such an "excellent" operating systems and doesnt even work like XP for a simple vpn? I have this problem aswell, it used to just work no hassle at all in XP.

That was why I went with the Firewall I currently have. I loved not having to install software on employees computers, just a simple email with some instructions was all they needed This fixed it for two of my systems. I've had it affect two very different Vista machines, though not every system.

Try the above steps and hopefully you will be back on your way. I spent 60 minutes trying to figure it out. It took me a while to realize it was refusing to make a PPTP. I had the similar problem with an error All firewalls disabled, still received the same error message. Found that when my connection was using a dynamically assigned ip address from ISP that my router at Server end was denying connection. Since I have a static ip on a Cisco router I used that gateway and connect synced up just fine.

The problem here is that the customer will be using Comcast and will definitely get a dynamic ip address. Could see with packetyzer that traffic was not ever getting to server. Logs on router were not showing any refusals or blocked traffic coming from my dynamic ip address on port , or any other ports for that matter. So it resolves down to blocked router traffic for me. But will still update after customer gets laptop back.

My VPN connection from Vista was working properly earlier. Recently i had problem with my network adapters all network adapters had yellow mark next to it and my internet connections stopped working. I installed the network adapters again and the internet connection started working.

But the WAN miniport was still having issues. As descripted in the earlier post, i uninstalled and installed the miniport. Now i am able to see the WAN miniport in device manager. Also tried disabling the firewall. Still no luck It works fine with another XP machine we have at home. Any thing else to try?? For example, if you're using the My Files app on a Samsung Galaxy, you would tap the white folder on an orange background icon.

Make sure this is the file manager for which you enabled app installations. Select your Android's default storage. Depending on where your Android stores its downloaded files by default, tap either the hard drive or the SD card name. This will open a list of folders on your Android. If you see a Downloads option on the main page, tap that and then skip the next step. Click Download. You should see the APK file that you downloaded in the "Download" folder, though you may need to scroll down to see it.

Tapping it opens the APK file. It's in the bottom-right corner of the screen. Tap DONE when prompted. This is at the bottom of the screen. The APK file's installer will close. You can also tap OPEN here to open the installed app.

When the app opens, enter the credentials you used to sign up. Use two fingers to swipe down from the top of the screen, then tap the "Settings" gear icon in the top-right corner of the resulting drop-down menu.

Scroll down and tap Apps and notifications. Doing so opens the Apps and Notifications menu. On a Samsung Galaxy, you'll instead tap Biometrics and security. If you have an Android running Nougat Android 7. Tap Install unknown apps. It should be in the middle of the menu. This option may instead say Install other apps. On some Androids, you may first have to tap Special access. Tap the white "Allow from this source" switch.

It's at the bottom of the page. Or you could just use openvpn on a box inside the router, or for that matter just run a ssh server and use that as your secure tunnel. Now you never need to install anything on the machine you want to vpn from or admin rights - just a copy of putty on your thumbdrive, etc. Thank you very much for your response. I have a WRVG router at the office. It's a Linksys router. I did look into openVPN and it requires the computer be running Linux, so it doesn't look like that'll work for me here.

I haven't found a way to connect using Vista. Vista actually HAS a VPN connection wizard in the network connections section, but I haven't been able to get that to connect at all, so I'm not really sure what the deal is with that. It was very useful. Yes currently openvpn only runs on a linux -- so run a virtual machine if you want on one of your boxes. From what I can tell that router is pretty old -- latest firmware I see for it is feb ?

You might want to update to a newer router. As to ipsec on vista -- where did you read that it was removed? I can assure you that ipsec is still very much works on vista. It was changed a bit how it works, and there are lots of improvements, etc. They changed the default rules sure - you most likely just need to configured them to allow ipsec to work? Thank you very much for your responses. I will take a look at those suggestions and see if I can get any of those to work. Now, after using VPN software for years, I have never had an issue like this until Microsoft made such a change.

I am a Microsoft supporter, but this was rather hair-brained Does anyone know how you are supposed to set up the VPN built into Vista? I would rather not pay for another software, since I already paid for the VPN Router and everything, and I don't see now Microsoft could limit NAT, when I don't know anyone that doesn't connect through a router I wish there was a way for me to enable tunneling if I wanted Sorry, I have been playing around with this and pulling a lot of hair out I forwarded it to Linksys as well so that they can review.

I completed the steps as described, but still failed to be able to connect. I did notice this which I found odd at this point.