VPN connection no longer works

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My VPN connection worked great until I decided a few weeks ago to setup a
POP3 email account. I needed to make a VPN connection at work yesterday and
could not connect ... and don't receive an error message when I try to
connect. I have deleted the VPN connection, setup a new VPN connection ... I
have even performed a hard reset on my PC and tried a VPN connection w/o
installing any applications and it still doesn't work.

I am able to connect to my wireless lan at home without a problem ... but
can't connect at work. One of my departmental coworkers has the same PPC and
his works fine.

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Ann <Ann@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My VPN connection worked great until I decided a few weeks ago to setup a
>POP3 email account. I needed to make a VPN connection at work yesterday and
>could not connect ... and don't receive an error message when I try to
>connect. I have deleted the VPN connection, setup a new VPN connection ... I
>have even performed a hard reset on my PC and tried a VPN connection w/o
>installing any applications and it still doesn't work.
>
>I am able to connect to my wireless lan at home without a problem ... but
>can't connect at work. One of my departmental coworkers has the same PPC and
>his works fine.
>

You shouldn't be able to connect to your internal VPN from your
internal connection, *especially* if your Pocket PC is set to WORK.
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"Ann" <nospam@netzero.com> wrote:

>I understand that I should not be able to make the connection from home.
>The problem was I could never make the VPN connection when I was at work
>although I had a wireless connection.
>
>I'm sorry I got it working again because I forgot how that seems to run the
>battery down always trying to make a vpn connection. I turned off the mail
>to check every 15 minutes but something still causes the message unable to
>make connection message to display every 15 minutes or so.

You should have this working at home. You don't need (or *shouldn't*
need) a VPN connection while you are at the office. VPNs are for
getting on your LAN from remote locations - it creates a "virtual
private network." YOu don't need to be virtual when at work, you are
really there.

As for the auto-connection - look in Activesync's options. Is that set
to autosync too?
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__________________________________________________________________________________
Ed Hansberry (Please do *NOT* email me. Post here for the benefit of all)
What is on my Pocket PC? http://www.ehansberry.com/
Microsoft MVP - Mobile Devices www.pocketpc.com
What is an MVP? - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/