Windows VPN Connections

Forgot to mention - using 6.1.3 on Windows XP

Just to be sure, what type of vpn you have created? Is it Microsoft VPN?

Yes - screenshot below

http://t.co/8nOGcpv
edited by jsigley on 8/17/2011

I've created a screencast to show whats happening - if interested - PM me.

To support - can someone please help with this ASAP? Need to get this going.

Thanks,

Can you try to check Use Connection Manager Administration Kit

Hi David, thansk for your help.

Made the change


Got this error now

Can you tell me the command line in the shortcut when you create it manually?

There is no command line, its just using Standard Windows VPN connection.

Can you send me a printscreen of the standard Windows VPN. Some use rasdial and some use rasphone

for windows vpn connections you need a configured VPNConnection on your system, completely outside of RDM.
you can do it by control center-> networkconnections ->new networkconnection -> connection to workplace -> VPN-Connection
then you have to enter the name of the connection and then the domain (e.g. example.dyndns.org).
after finish this assisent, you can choose the connection in RDM VPN-Name ist the same as connection name in the vpn-assistent
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We also use RDM Enterprise (on SQL) for our team. Microsoft VPN connections are one thing I haven't really been able to 'share' with everyone. Is there some way to automatically create the VPN connection via RDM?

You can try to embed the phonebook. It's the only way I've found.

Hey Echo,

We first set-up a Vm machine with all our VPN connections on them, then exported the ras phonebook (located C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk on XP) and stored in a shared location that each team member could access.


We then pointed RDM to this shared phonebook, and choose the appropriate connection. All works fine for us.
edited by jsigley on 10/18/2011

Thanks a lot :) I did a bit of googling after my initial post this morning (only just seen your replies now!) and had stumbled on similar methods!

Seems to be the way to go!

We have put the .pbk file on a file share and use that.
You can add connections by creating them on your local system and then copy the ini segment from your local file to the central located file
The local file is located here: %AppData%\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk\rasphone.pbk

Also we have not stored the VPN settings in the session directly, but created dedicated VPN sessions, with the credentials stored in a central place.
On the various sessions we use "existing session" vpn type to connect.

btw, an embedded .pbk file which could be accessed by multiple VPN sessions would be nice. that would make the file share obsolete

Hi,
We have an idea that might simplify the shared pbk but I'm not sure when we will implement this. However I'm aware of the limitation.

We're now replacing the users pbk with a network shared version at login, then storing all the usernames and passwords into RDM. This works perfect.

we have saved our pbk on the network too. for edit sessions or to create new session we have configured a commandline "session" with the following command:
rasphone -f K:\Users\Alle\RemoteDesktopManager\rasphone.pbk
it works great!

You don't have to overwrite the user's files. Simple calling the shared one works too!