Re: Remote Desktop and VPN issues

[Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx>]

O.k., the latest regarding the problems reported yesterday for my XP box at 
home:

I deleted the VPN connection. No more dialog box prompts asking to connect 
via VPN. 

However, was still losing connection to the internet *intermittently* 
("couldn't find www.google.com <http://www.google.com>" or any number of 
other web sites, wait a few minutes and then able to reach them again). Ran 
network diags, and the attempts to ping the router failed! IPCONFIG showed 
valid IP addresses. So I turned off Symantec's Firewall; I couldn't find 
anything in the configuration that sounded like it would cause the problem, 
so I turned it off. That ended the problem of losing connections. It was 
late, and I still want to investigate Symantec's support to see if it has 
anything on this problem, but for now, I'm using Microsoft's firewall. I may 
just download ZA and try that.

After turning off Symantec's firewall, but before turning Microsoft's back 
on, I recreated the VPN connection, following the same instructions I had 
for the Win98SE box. Again, as before, no problems making a VPN connection. 
I "edited" the .RDP for the RD connection to verify the information. Still 
could not make a connection; had the same error as I reported yesterday. 
Note that there is NO firewall active at this point.

So I am still perplexed by this. 

Per David's question, I forgot to note the brand/model of the router.

One of the frustrations trying to compare the network connections between 
the Win98SE box and the XP-Home box is that the dialogs are completely 
different and, in some cases, I was unable to adequately match stuff on the 
Win98SE box to the XP-Home box.

Advice / admonitions / pity welcomed. Wait, scratch pity.

TIA, Dan