VPN trying to access dialup (modem)

hey folks. We are running Vista Business. We have one user, when we
setup vpn connection, even though we tell the wizard to "use my
internet connection" (LAN via CAT 5 and Wireless) it for some reason
keeps trying to setup to go out thru a dialup connection, even though
one doesn't exist.

Anyone experience this, and/or have a solution?

Hi,

I hate these kind of 'me too' posts, but, yes, indeed, I have the exact same problem.

I first thought it was because I have two network connections (wired and wireless) and one of both is not running (cable unplugged for example).

That didn't help.

I then thought of disabling one. To no avail.


I'm still looking into this, as I really was able to define a VPN connection that went over my Internet Connection a week ago. But now, I can't get that working anymore.

So I'm thinking now that this can be caused by a recent update, or some software I recently installed.


I'll get back here when I find out what's causing this.

Cheers,
v

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On Apr 6, 7:29 am, Vincent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hate these kind of 'me too' posts, but, yes, indeed, I have the exact same problem.
>
> I first thought it was because I have two network connections (wired and wireless) and one of both is not running (cable unplugged for example).
>
> That didn't help.
>
> I then thought of disabling one. To no avail.
>
> I'm still looking into this, as I really was able to define a VPN connection that went over my Internet Connection a week ago. But now, I can't get that working anymore.
>
> So I'm thinking now that this can be caused by a recent update, or some software I recently installed.
>
> I'll get back here when I find out what's causing this.
>
> Cheers,
> v
>
> EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choicehttp://www.eggheadcafe.com

Sorry for the confusion, but this message was sent as a reply through
eggheadcafe, but the message comes in the group as a new message.


I'll describe the problem:

I try to add a new VPN connection in Vista (Ultimate). I do define
that it is NOT a dial up connection, but a VPN connection going over
my network connection. I can define the remote host, the username and
password, etc. But Vista forces the connection to become a dial up
connection.

When going to Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections I
see that in the icon it is clearly marked as dial-up, it is placed in
the dial-up group, and when I view the properties of the connection,
on the General tab, it says, under Connect using: Modem removed. In
the Phone number text box, I can find the host address I entered
during setup.

In the Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections panel,
it says Unavailable - device missing.


And I did manage to get it working after my initial Vista install. Yet
after some days, after a reboot, Vista had switched the connection to
being a dial-up connection.


Cheers,
v

[nst501]

Hi all,

I just had the same issue happen to one of my Dell Laptops running Vista Ultimate. It was fine until two weeks ago then suddenly it's gone from a regular VPN connection to a dial-up connection that says "device missing" and has the modem icon. no matter what I try i can't get it to go back to a VPN connection.

Has anyone found a way to resolve this issue yet?

[RSIboy]

Never had a modem installed on Vista machine - had VPN working fine.

Was remotely telling a friend how to install their Speedtouch 330 modem under Vista, and ended up installing one on mine just so I could go through each step.

Even after unplugging and uninstalling the modem, I found that whenever my browser took a few seconds to load a page, my existing VPN connection would pop up, prompting me to dial it - I kept clicking cancel, but this became annoying, so I ended up deleting the VPN connection, thinking I would simply recreate it.

Unfortunately, whenever I try to recreate the VPN connection, it fails because under the connection properties it has 'Connect using: Modem Removed- Unavailable device ()" On my list of available networks, the status says "This connection is not available because there is a problem with your modem or network adapter"

I can't figure a way to a) remove all traces of having installed a modem, and more importantly b) force my VPN connection to use the existing LAN network adapter!

Look forwad to any responses to this!

Thanks

[drewmann]

I have just experiened the same problem. I am using VISTA Ultimate and had VPN connections working fine. I went onsite and decided to use my bluetooth phone to create a modem connection. That worked fine and VPN was fine.

But when i disconnected i found that my VPN connection was changed to a dial-up connection??? I deleted and re-created my VPN but each time i create, it always tried to dial a modem first. I have deleted the modem (bluetooth) and even disabled drivers to no-avail. It simply will not recognise that i have an ethernet connection.

I hope someone finds a fix for this.

I will contact Micrsoft next week and use some of my support time. In meantime love to hear if someone finds a fix.

DrewMann

[partymarty]

Found a solution to this issue, it's to do with incorrect registry permissions.

Run the commands below.

Vista:
secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose

XP:
[FONT='Calibri','sans-serif']secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose[/font]