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How do I set up a working VPN connection in Vista?
I was able to set up one connection under a local account, connected it, set my Vista machine to connect to my domain at work, and joined the domain. I then used fast user switching to keep the VPN active and logged onto my domain account and everything worked fine. I set up outlook 2k7 beta to access my Exchange server and all was good until I decided to disconnect the VPN. It wouldn't disconnect at all - kept giving me an error that it was in the process of "connecting or disconnecting" and that I would have to try again later.
I ended up unplugging the whole network cable for a bit to get my VPN router at the work end to dump the connection. I then reinserted the network cable and went on about my business.
When I tried later to reconnect to the VPN, it just instantly goes to "unable to connect" after clicking the "connect" button. It isn't even trying. I deleted the VPN connection and tried to recreate it but that didn't work either. All that did was delete the previously working connection. Now when I try to recreate it, I go through the wizard and at the end, after clicking "connect" it instantly tells me that "the wizard is unable to connect" and asks me if I want to save the connection without connecting. If I say to try to connect again, it just does the same thing again. If I tell it to save the connection, the window closes, but when I go back into the "connect to" menu, there are no connections available.
How do I recreate a working VPN connection?
Also, how do I tell it to connect to the VPN before logon? I can do that in WinXP by "log onto dial-up connection" thereby connecting my VPN and allowing all logon scripts to run. Is that possible in Vista?
Thanks, Jeff

Sorry for the duplicate posts. I kept getting errors when I tried to post that the messages were not accepted. I guess they were after all. Yay Vista errors!!
"Jeff Foster" <Jeff Foster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

How do I set up a working VPN connection in Vista?
I was able to set up one connection under a local account, connected it, set my Vista machine to connect to my domain at work, and joined the domain. I then used fast user switching to keep the VPN active and logged onto my domain account and everything worked fine. I set up outlook 2k7 beta to access my Exchange server and all was good until I decided to disconnect the VPN. It wouldn't disconnect at all - kept giving me an error that it was in the process of "connecting or disconnecting" and that I would have to try again later.
I ended up unplugging the whole network cable for a bit to get my VPN router at the work end to dump the connection. I then reinserted the network cable and went on about my business.
When I tried later to reconnect to the VPN, it just instantly goes to "unable to connect" after clicking the "connect" button. It isn't even trying. I deleted the VPN connection and tried to recreate it but that didn't work either. All that did was delete the previously working connection. Now when I try to recreate it, I go through the wizard and at the end, after clicking "connect" it instantly tells me that "the wizard is unable to connect" and asks me if I want to save the connection without connecting. If I say to try to connect again, it just does the same thing again. If I tell it to save the connection, the window closes, but when I go back into the "connect to" menu, there are no connections available.
How do I recreate a working VPN connection?
Also, how do I tell it to connect to the VPN before logon? I can do that in WinXP by "log onto dial-up connection" thereby connecting my VPN and allowing all logon scripts to run. Is that possible in Vista?
Thanks, Jeff

Yes the web-based newsreader has that bug (just look through the Vista ng's and you will see a lot of duplicate postings). Try the Vista Mail newsreader. All of the Vista groups are already listed. All you have to do is subscribe to the ones you want.
"Jeff Foster" wrote in message

Sorry for the duplicate posts. I kept getting errors when I tried to post that the messages were not accepted. I guess they were after all. Yay Vista errors!!
"Jeff Foster" <Jeff Foster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message How do I set up a working VPN connection in Vista?
I was able to set up one connection under a local account, connected it, set my Vista machine to connect to my domain at work, and joined the domain. I then used fast user switching to keep the VPN active and logged onto my domain account and everything worked fine. I set up outlook 2k7 beta to access my Exchange server and all was good until I decided to disconnect the VPN. It wouldn't disconnect at all - kept giving me an error that it was in the process of "connecting or disconnecting" and that I would have to try again later.
I ended up unplugging the whole network cable for a bit to get my VPN router at the work end to dump the connection. I then reinserted the network cable and went on about my business.
When I tried later to reconnect to the VPN, it just instantly goes to "unable to connect" after clicking the "connect" button. It isn't even trying. I deleted the VPN connection and tried to recreate it but that didn't work either. All that did was delete the previously working connection. Now when I try to recreate it, I go through the wizard and at the end, after clicking "connect" it instantly tells me that "the wizard is unable to connect" and asks me if I want to save the connection without connecting. If I say to try to connect again, it just does the same thing again. If I tell it to save the connection, the window closes, but when I go back into the "connect to" menu, there are no connections available.
How do I recreate a working VPN connection?
Also, how do I tell it to connect to the VPN before logon? I can do that in WinXP by "log onto dial-up connection" thereby connecting my VPN and allowing all logon scripts to run. Is that possible in Vista?
Thanks, Jeff

How do I set up a working VPN connection in Vista?
I was able to set up one connection under a local account, connected it, set my Vista machine to connect to my domain at work, and joined the domain. I then used fast user switching to keep the VPN active and logged onto my domain account and everything worked fine. I set up outlook 2k7 beta to access my Exchange server and all was good until I decided to disconnect the VPN. It wouldn't disconnect at all - kept giving me an error that it was in the process of "connecting or disconnecting" and that I would have to try again later.
I ended up unplugging the whole network cable for a bit to get my VPN router at the work end to dump the connection. I then reinserted the network cable and went on about my business.
When I tried later to reconnect to the VPN, it just instantly goes to "unable to connect" after clicking the "connect" button. It isn't even trying. I deleted the VPN connection and tried to recreate it but that didn't work either. All that did was delete the previously working connection. Now when I try to recreate it, I go through the wizard and at the end, after clicking "connect" it instantly tells me that "the wizard is unable to connect" and asks me if I want to save the connection without connecting. If I say to try to connect again, it just does the same thing again. If I tell it to save the connection, the window closes, but when I go back into the "connect to" menu, there are no connections available.
How do I recreate a working VPN connection?
Also, how do I tell it to connect to the VPN before logon? I can do that in WinXP by "log onto dial-up connection" thereby connecting my VPN and allowing all logon scripts to run. Is that possible in Vista?
Thanks, Jeff