RE: Windows XP Beta test

["Westdorp, Tom" <Tom.Westdorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a hardware based VPN from Cisco that requires their client.  Our net
geeks say that they will get it to just NT/XP's IpSec eventually but for now
it requires the client.

I'm going to check XP for the APCOMPAT.EXE Marty suggested and see if that's
an option.  I liked XP, compared to 95/98, and it was pretty stable for me.
I'm eager to go back.

Thanks for the suggestion though!

-----Original Message-----
From: Wills, Mike N. (TC) [mailto:MNWills@taylorcorp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 2:33 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Windows XP Beta test


Can't you use the VPN client that comes with Windows? I don't know much
about VPN's so I could be wrong.

-----Original Message-----
From: Urbanek, Marty [mailto:Marty_Urbanek@stercomm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 3:42 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Windows XP Beta test


It's too late now, but in Win2K there was a program called APCOMPAT.EXE
which would return a false value to an application when it queries the OS
version. If they still have that tool under XP, perhaps it would have
allowed your VPN client to install. On Win2K, you had to manually copy
APCOMPAT.EXE from a support folder on the Win2K CD.

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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:34:05 -0700
From: "Westdorp, Tom" <Tom.Westdorp@StationCasinos.com>
Subject: RE: Windows XP Beta test

...I had to take reinstall 98 because the VPN client we use to get to the
work
network via my cable modem (Cisco VPN 3000) would not install, it
interpreted XP as Win2k 5.1 which exceeded its 5.0x limitation and some fax
service seized control of my com port so I could not even fall back to dial
up to a RAS server...
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