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Title: pptp still not working
Post by: Steve on July 24, 2001, 07:00:40 PM

Ok,

I have e-smith set up as a firewall/router on my cable modem. I want to use my laptop to dial up the internet from a remote location and establish a VPN connection to my e-smith server.

I turned on pptp and allowed 2 connections on the e-smith server.

I set up a VPN DUN connection as said in the docs for my Win98se laptop.

I downloaded the 128bit encryption update from the M$ windows update site. Here is what happens.

1) I establish an internet connection with my dial up account.

2) I double click on my VPN DUN connection and it brings up the "Connect to" window.

3) I enter my account password for my e-smith account and hit connect

4) The window goes briefly to dialing and disconnecting.

5) Then I get a Error Window that says the following:

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Disconnected from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

Dial-Up Networking was unable to complete the connection

Error: 645

The Microsoft Dial-Up Adapter is in use or not responding properly Disconnect other connections and then try again. If this problem persists, shutdown and restart your computer.

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The only other DUN connection I have running is my interet connection and I have tried unistalling the 128bit encrytion upgrade and reinstalling it and the same proble occures.

Anyone have any ideas what I am doing wrong?

TIA
Steve

Title: Re: pptp still not working
Post by: Bill on July 24, 2001, 11:01:18 PM

I am having the same problems with my Windows 2000 setup!

Ahhh....  The e-smith manual is pretty weak in this area... no screenshots or anything.

I guess that's how they get you to pay for support...

Title: Re: pptp still not working
Post by: Blake Heinemann on July 25, 2001, 02:01:51 AM

I have had similiar problems and have had to reboot esmith then all works fine. It's like the pptpd is dying or something.  

bh

Title: Re: pptp still not working
Post by: Mark Fleeson on July 26, 2001, 08:58:50 PM

On Win2K, have you upgraded to service pack 2?

Mark

Title: Re: pptp still not working
Post by: Steve on August 08, 2001, 09:22:44 PM

No it's win98 all updates done

Title: Re: pptp still not working
Post by: Nisse on August 16, 2001, 10:43:14 PM

I have Win98SE. DUN 1.4 don´t update (outside US and Canada) a file under "windows/system" named "pppmac.vxd". I had to uninstall DUN 1.4 and then install orginal dun again, then copy one file "pppmac.vxd" from DUN 1.4 to "windows/system". Then you have 128 bit encryption. My pptp or vpn works great after this.

/Nils