VPN always defaults to WAN Miniport (L2TP) instead of PPTP

[Guest]

When I create a new VPN connection on my Vista laptop, the device is always
configured as "WAN Miniport (L2TP)" and I cannot connect to my PPTP VPN at
work. My boss has the exact same laptop with Vista as well and when he
creates a new VPN it defaults to "WAN Miniport (PPTP)" and it works just
fine.

I cannot seem to find any way to change which miniport is used by the VPN
connection. I can't uninstall any of the miniport from Device manager. It
does not give me an error but they don't dissappear.

I followed some instructions I found to reinstall the miniports using the
commands:

Netcfg -u MS_L2TP
Netcfg -u MS_PPTP
Netcfg -l %windir%\inf\netrast.inf -c p -i MS_PPTP
Netcfg -l %windir%\inf\netrast.inf -c p -i MS_L2TP

But nothing changed in device manager and I still cannot connect. Help?

 

[Guest]

From another post here I found this website which explains my problem:
http://boyersnet.com/blogs/chucks_b...ops-working-when-running-virtual-pc-2007.aspx

Basically, if you install VirtualPC 2007 under Vista, it appears to break
your PPTP VPN connections. I could uninstall it but finding a better
workaround would be idea.

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

Thank you for the feedback.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
From another post here I found this website which explains my problem:
http://boyersnet.com/blogs/chucks_b...ops-working-when-running-virtual-pc-2007.aspx

Basically, if you install VirtualPC 2007 under Vista, it appears to break
your PPTP VPN connections. I could uninstall it but finding a better
workaround would be idea.

 

[Guest]

Any ideas on how to get both PPTP and VirtualPC working together? I put a
post in the VirtualPC 2007 beta newsgroup but since the program is closed I
doubt I get any response and don't know where else to report it.