There is a problem with Vista's PPTP Adapter

[t_jahns]

Has anyone else come across this yet?

Within 30 minutes to two hours after establishing a PPTP VPN
connection to my remote work network (hosted by a Windows 2003 SBS SP1
server) I lose connectivity to my *local* Windows 2003 SBS SP1
server. For example, my local Outlook 2003 is no longer able to "see"
its PST file, which is on a mapped drive on my local SBS server (the
problem also happens with any files opened by Word). I am also unable
to open any of my network shares on the local SBS server.

Disconnecting the PPTP session resolves the situation and I can then
access my local shares (it is necessary to restart Outlook before it
will reconnect to its PST). After restarting the PPTP connection, the
process repeats, but this time I can go for days before losing
connectivity to my local shares.

I experienced this same problem with Vista RC1. I do not experience
the problem on the same desktop computer when I boot it up with
Windows XP.

I have the OEM version of Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate so I cannot
call Microsoft's support line to report this behavior. Are there any
back-door avenues to Microsoft to report this issue?

Tim Jahns
Tucson, AZ

 

[DJ]

There's a KB article on this on Microsoft. Sorry I don't have the specific
article but I remember seeing it earlier today while researching my issue.