That's the thing...I don't know *precisely* when it broke. I don't need to
VPN much. I just wanted to look at something in the office Tuesday morning
before I headed off to a seminar in Atlanta and so I tried to VPN in. Last
time I remember using it was around Thanksgiving, 2010, when I was testing
another laptop for a user. I wanted to ensure that the problems the user was
having were not related to the VPN, so I took my laptop out and tested the
VPN from McDonalds and it worked
I had VPN-ed in from my wife's desktop Monday night late, as I didn't want
to fuss with firing up the laptop. I haven't actually sat down and compared
patches, etc on the laptop against the desktop. I know that the desktop is
using Vipre Home (standard) for anti-malware.


From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VPN problems

Ok,
-when did it break?
-what changed?

Since the wife’s PC works, what does a comparison between the two machines
reveal?

From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 7:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VPN problems

I am having problems with my Cisco VPN and my company laptop (Windows XP).
I’ve tried the Cisco client, and I’ve tried the Shrewsoft VPN client.
Neither one works, although the Cisco one said it was connected, I was
unable to get past the firewall. The Shrew client won’t even connect. It
gets a timeout error. There is no firewall installed on the laptop. The same
configuration works on my wife’s XP box at home using the Cisco client, so
I’m about 99.9999% sure it’s not my account info.
Any ideas where to look? I don’t know much about this stuff. I’ve got Vipre
Enterprise Premium installed, but don’t have the firewall portion active.
Before anyone asks, yes, it *used* to work, but the last time I went and
tried it (Tuesday) it just wouldn’t work and I’ve been fighting to get it
going since then. Heck, it doesn’t even work from McDonald’s, which has open
wireless… and I’ve tried wired and wireless, neither works.

Thanks.



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