Cisco VPN Client Blocks Windows XP Networking

[Scott Millman]

I had one heck of a time trying to get my two XP Home pcs to share
files, and found I had to unstall the Cisco VPN 3.5.X client from both
machines to make it work. I've had this experience before...my guess is
the VPN client must install its own fire wall, which I can't figure out
how to configure. I really need to have the VPN client installed to
access systems at work. Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions on
how to work around this?

Thanks
Scott

 

[Lance]

Very good guess on your part. Took me months to figure out that Cisco
installed it's own firewall and how to fix things up.

You can get Cisco VPN and your home network to co-exist peacefully. I do
it on my computer at home. What needs to be done is manually uninstall
all the crud Cisco leaves behind after uninstall, get your home network
working nicely and then reinstall Cisco, then enable LAN traffic in Cisco.

Following these instructions for a manual Cisco uninstall:

Cisco - How to Manually Uninstall the Cisco VPN Client 3.5 and Later for
Windows 2000
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/471/vpn3K_uninstall.html#related

Then following these instructions for manually uninstalling the
Zonealarm components Cisco leaves behind:

Uninstall ZoneAlarm
http://nh2.nohold.net/noHoldCust25/Prod_1/Articles55646/ManualUninstall.html
http://nh2.nohold.net/noHoldCust25/Prod_1/Articles55646/CompleteUninstallNonNT.html

This is a discussion of the problem here:

Cisco VPN and XP sP2 Firewall
<http://forum.cisco.com/eforum/servl...tion=outline@^1@@.1dd62b2d/0#selected_message>

Lance
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Scott Millman thought carefully and wrote on 12/12/2004 1:09 PM:

 

[Carey Holzman]

I have some info on it here:

http://www.careyholzman.com/xp/home/xphome-1.htm

Carey