Comments on: Windows Vista VPN: A Step Backward

By: Daniel Burnsn

Daniel Burnsn — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:40:27 +0000

Sean and anyone else who might still be wondering, in answer to your XP PPTP VPN questioon and configuring PC Cillin. I have just got this working. To do so, go into the firewall settings and into whichever profile pc cillin is using, eg ‘Direct Internet Connection’ and click Edit, Under network control tab, click Add, Call it something sensible like VPN PPTP, set connection outgoing, action allow, type TCP, Specified port 1723, and click ok. Then from network control tab again, click Add, Call it GRE Protocol, make connection outgoing, action allow, ***set protocol to ‘custom’ then enter protocol number 47, then click ok. Then try again. Sorry, instructions aren’t pretty but hopefully they work, don’t have time for anything nicer.

cheers,
Daniel

By: vpn service

vpn service — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:08:49 +0000

Vista is a really fed up me. It’s a really sucks OS. I’am downgrading to XP on my new notebook.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:29:15 +0000

I’ve been trying to setup VPN using a Vista Ultimate computer as the server and have a Vista Pro computer trying to connect to through VPN with no success as well. I have opened up TCP ports, should I be opening up UDP ports as well? This is giving me quite a headache..lol. I have also tried to connect using a few different XP home and pro versions…

By: George

George — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:35:10 +0000

I have Live onecare 2.0 and blocks all my gaming ports. I used to have norton antivirus and it will automatically adjust the ports for the game. Now I need to configure all the ports which is a pain and I don’t even know which ones are they. Any help?

By: john

john — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:29:38 +0000

There is way too many problems with vista, just in general. Thats why i bought a Mac. I just decided to switch to another high speed internet service provider as well. They are cheap and reliable. Check them out: http://ispsurvey.com

By: Cliff

Cliff — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:20:20 +0000

It seems that Windows Vista uses v2 of CHAP and this causes problems when trying to connect via VPN, especially to older VPN solutions.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:53:16 +0000

yes, that was the first thing I checked. thanks!

tried calling microshaft today to use the first of the 90 days support…well…turns out only for easy basic type help…vpn stuff they want $250?! jeez. so going to keep digging around the net until i find a solutioin…funny thing…works fine between two xp pro machines…but between a xp pro and a vista business (server/host)…NO GO! there has to be somthing in vista preventing it…just can’t find out what?

By: Alec

Alec — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:15:42 +0000

Tim - random thought — are both PC’s on the same domain or workgroup name? They’ve changed the rules for Vista Business edition so that if the workgroup name doesn’t match, servers are invisible to each other.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:16:02 +0000

I cannot get a VPN connection at all usiing XP Pro as client and Vista Business as server. all firewalls off on both ends (for now), and all necessary ports open. using a linksys wrt150n…vPN passthru enables, and ports open. i am absolutely clueless…since it works fine between (2) xP pro setups.

triied to PINg the server, nothing. no ping as if it were dead…but i can remote desktop no problem to the server? so clueless yet again. i guess vista business is broke with VPN or soemthing? or something is blocking it even though firewalls off and ports open???

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:07:58 +0000

using windows vista premium to try and set up a VPN every time I do so it will say internet explorr is not connected. If I manually type in the server address it allows me in but then I can reply and it claims site has a certificate error (it doenst as I operate vpn) on xp rom the same server ! Ideas?