Stik62 Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 Does anyone know if Media Center 2005 actually supports VPN clients? I had my Dad try to set up a VPN connection on his Media center machine and when he gets to the "Enter Company Name" it is grayed out and prefilled with "SBC". All updates are installed. He has a HP machine using SBC yahoo dsl with the install disk (boo!).Title edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title.Please follow XP Forum Rules from now on.--Sonic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 I havn't tested MCE yet, but it does support vpn client because it's a professionnal edition of windows xp + "multimedia pack/kit" ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stik62 Posted April 30, 2006 Author Share Posted April 30, 2006 Sorry about the posting Sonic. I didnt catch that it actually needed to be typed in. Thought the Icon would take care of it. Thanks for the input on MCE. I didnt realize it was actually a Pro OS. But like i was saying it seems odd that you can go through the motions to create a VPN on this machine up to the point where you enter the company name and the text field is grayed out and has SBC allready filled in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Can you post a screenshot ? Have you tried to search in Add/Remove applications ? Try to remove SBC yahoo to test ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stik62 Posted April 30, 2006 Author Share Posted April 30, 2006 (edited) I cant do a screen shot or remove the SBC install at the moment Sonic (we are in different states and he likes the SBC set up) and besides he doesnt need the VPN it was just to help me with some testing.. However I was told (in another forum) that the problem probably lies with the SBC yahoo install package. It more than likely sets up a proxy server for the connection that would prevent a VPN connection from being created. Thanks again!Here's a quote from the other source"Due to you have a PPPoE connection running on the other PC, this could be the problem:If you have an active Winsock Proxy client, you cannot create a VPN connection. A Winsock Proxy client immediately redirects data to a configured proxy server before the data can be processed in the fashion required by a VPN connection. To establish a VPN connection, you should disable the Winsock Proxy client.And since a PPPoE connection acts like a Proxy client, that would be why you are getting the problem. Can you set up the PPPoE connection on the modem, instead of the PC?" Edited April 30, 2006 by Stik62 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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