VPN Troubles

[AirShark]

After I attempt to create a new VPN connection on my
Win2000 machine, my newly created "VPN Connection" icon has a red "X" next
to it and the status
says "Unavailable - device missing" . I have full admin rights on this
machine. Does anyone have any clue as to what's going on? I notice my Wan
Miniport (PPTP) and (L2TP) adapters do not show in my device
manager....PLEASE HELP!!!!!! I'm getting a bit desperate here

 

[David Beder [MSFT]]

Over which connection is the VPN connection designed to communicate? eg. DSL
connection, Dial-up connection. Verify that that connection is viable.

Device manager no longer displays miniport info since such things are now
ingrained within windows rather than being more of an add-on to Win9x.

 

[AirShark]

The connection is designed to communicate over DSL using PPTP, although I
have also been succesful using a variety of LAN and dial-up connections from
other Windows XP/2000 machines. The connection is working and viable. I
have also verified that the Host machine does work with other PC's and
establishes the expected VPN tunnel.

As far as the Device manager, it shows WAN Miniport (IP) as being there. So
I doubt that the others are not supposed to be visible. Also, these other
WAN Miniport devices (PPTP & LT2P) are visble in the device manager on every
other XP/2000 PC that I have checked.

I'm guessing that somehow these other devices got removed. When I create a
new VPN connection on this Windows 2000 machine, I am telling it NOT to
dial-up a connection first. It should use the available network to make
it's connection in that case. However, since the miniport devices are
missing, I believe Win2000 tells me that it can not find them by displaying
the message "Unavailable - Device Missing" on the connection status of my
newly created VPN connection.

Anyone have any other ideas or experience that would be helpful to me?

Thanks!

-Bryan Lynch