VPN connectoid invisible in tray, how to disconnect?

[Bo Berglund]

I am using Mircosoft PPTP VPN to the company LAN. It is served by a
Windows 2003 server on an AD domain.

Usually when I have connected the tunnel there are three items that
show that I am indeed connected:
1) There is a "twin computer" icon in the tray with the name of my
connectoid.

2) If I start the connection link on my desktop I do not get the
connect dialogue, but instead the statistics window with a button to
disconnect (same if I doubleclick the tray icon)

3) I can connect to and use the resources on the remote network.

But now for some unknown reason this has stopped. There is no tray
icon and when I use the connect VPN link it shows the normal connect
dialogue instead of the statistics one.
Thus I have nowhere to disconnect my session!

How can I restore the previous behaviour and how can I disconnect
now????

My only option now to check the connection state is to try using a
network resource and finding that it works or not....


Bo Berglund

 

[Limey]

Bo,
This has been happening to me also. What seems to work is opening Task
Manager, going to the Processes tab and ending Explorer.exe. Then switch back
to the Applications tab and start a new explorer.exe. The tray icon then
re-appears along with all the rest of the tray icons.

 

[NVVN]

Manager, going to the Processes tab and ending Explorer.exe. Then switch back
to the Applications tab and start a new explorer.exe. The tray icon then
re-appears along with all the rest of the tray icons.

Right click My Network Places / Properties / Press F5 and it will show
up that you connected and icon will be showed up at notification area.

This usually happen when you create VPN connection for all users (owner:
system)

 

[Limey]

Definitely not the case for me, I created the VPN connection for myself. I
will try the F5 next time it happens but I know that when it was happening My
Network Places was showing as Disconnected.