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Title: VPN Connection Error
Post by: jdlsc on December 05, 2003, 05:02:56 PM

I am having trouble connecting to my SME 5.6 server via VPN.  I have the # of PPTP clients set to 4 and I know that I am the only one trying to connect.  I can connect via my local LAN IP address, so I know it is working to some extent, but when I try to connect via the External WAN IP address, I get the folowing error:  Error 781: The encryption attempt failed because no valid certificate was found.

Any ideas on where to begin to fix this?

I am Linux beginner, please forgive me if this is pretty basic.  Thanks!

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Title: Re: VPN Connection Error
Post by: brad on December 05, 2003, 10:59:18 PM

> I have the # of PPTP clients set to 4 and I know that I am the only one trying to connect.

...but do you have PPTP turned on for the individual user?  That was my problem.

Title: Re: VPN Connection Error
Post by: arno on December 06, 2003, 11:19:49 AM

yea, each user need have vpn acces.
U can do that in the properties of the users

Title: Re: VPN Connection Error
Post by: Ray Mitchell on December 06, 2003, 12:45:41 PM

Try google, which gave these search results

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Error+781%3A+The+encryption+attempt+failed+because+no+valid+certificate+was+found.&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta=


then for example
http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian/windows/trbl_w2k_teafbnvc781.htm
or
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q247/2/31.asp&NoWebContent=1

On v5.6 all users automatically had VPN access rights.

At a guess your Win VPN client may not be configured correctly ??

Can you ping your server from the remote location ?

Regs
Ray