Routing and Remote Access Service Fails

[Jake]

I'm having trouble setting up my Windows XP Pro PC to
accept incoming VPN connections.

Routing and Remote Access Service fails to start with
a "service specific error code of 340". The service
starts without a hitch on my laptop, but not the PC. I
did upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro on the PC whereas, the
laptop had a scratch install of XP Pro on it. Might that
be an issue? Anyone ran into this erro before? TIA for
any responses.

Jake

 

[Jeffrey Randow (MVP)]

Check to make sure that you have the Remote Access Connection Manager
Service enabled and started.

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[Jake]

Thank you for your reply.

The service is running and when I try to stop it, I
receive the following message

"Could not stop the Remote Access Connection Manager,
service on Local Computer. The service did not return an
error. This could be an internal Windows error or an
internal service error. If the problem persists, contact
your system administrator."

I disabled the service and restarted. I then restarted
Remote Access Connection Manager and then tried to
restart the Routing and Remote Access Service and got the
same error as before.

 

[Jeffrey Randow (MVP)]

Don't try to manually start up the RRAS service... I always get an
error when I do this... Set up your Incoming connection and then it
will enable and start it...

Jeffrey Randow (Windows MVP - Networking & Smart Display)
(e-mail address removed)

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Windows XP Expert Zone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

 

[Jake]

I ended up repairing the XP Pro installation and it works
fine now. Thanks.