Re: PPC 2003 PPTP VPN login problem

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From: Ted Rakers (tedrakers_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: 4 Nov 2004 03:58:30 -0800

Hi Eric,

Thank you for replying to my message.

How exactly do I designate the wireless device to the internet?.
'Work' is not selected to connect to the internet; however the
'my VPN' connection is. I can't even swap the state of these toggles.
It is the 'my VPN' connection that is forced to have a connection to
the internet. So I shouldn't be using 'work'?. But the ppc is already
connected to the wireless LAN using his own AP. What I am trying to
accomplish is to connect to the other AP which is the VPN server and
provides the connection to the internet.

Ted. 

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"Eric Hicks [MVP, Windows Mobile devices]" <e_dadu@nomospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<uCZoaJdwEHA.1308@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
> Ted,
>        To use the vpn settings you will have to designate your wireles 
> connection as an "internet" connection, the reason is the connection manager 
> in the ppc thinks that if you set it to work that you are already on the 
> network.  Now this is when we run into the shortcomimings of the connection 
> manager, while the vpn tunnel is up only non dotted IP's will travel through 
> the tunnel.  You can add exceptions which will allow dotted ip's to do so 
> but you would have to make the range extremely broad and while it will work 
> at home as soon as you go somewhere else and try to use wifi or any other 
> type of connection, your ppc will try to connect to the vpn that you have 
> setup because once you put the exceptions in the connection manager will 
> require a vpn connection for those exceptions.
> 
> -- 
> Eric Hicks [That_Kid] (MS-MVP Mobile Devices)
> 
> The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no 
> rights...
> 
> 
> 
> "Ted Rakers" <tedrakers@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:178901c4c1c5$b2989a40$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been trying to get my father-in-law's PPC running
> > 2003 online with the internet. He has got a SanDisk wifi
> > SD card installed and this card needs to connect to an AP
> > that acts as a DHCP and VPN server. The IP adresses are
> > properly assigned to the card... so far so good.
> > Under 'Work' we created a 'connect to wireless'
> > connection where we defined all the required info such as
> > PPTP, username, password etc. Then when we click to
> > connect, a dialog returns with the message 'VPN server
> > problems'. We have several PC's running XP that are
> > logging into the AP without any problems. What I need to
> > mention is that he has got his own AP where he connects
> > to first using simple WEP encryption. That AP is
> > connected to a wireless bridge that in turn connects to
> > the AP I described first. Does anyone have an idea as to
> > what I am doing wrong here?.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Ted.

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