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by dbressler 1 view

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Our company has a Citrix server which allows users to dial in from their home computers and work from the comfort of their own home. They go through 3 separate procedures in order to dial in properly:

1. Install Dial-Up Networking and create a Dial-Up icon which allows them to access the internet.
2. Install the VPN client for Novell.
3. Install the CITRIX client (ICA client).

Once the VPN client is configured and the CITRIX client is configured, they can access our network just asif they were sitting at their PC's at work.

HOWEVER...

Some people (including myself) have upgraded our Windows 98 computers to Windows ME. And ever since then, the VPN client does not work properly. It looks like it connects and authenticates, but when you try to run the CITRIX client, nothing happens.

We have narrowed the problem down to the Novell VPN client because when you connect with the VPN client, you should be able to PING our Citrix server.

Now that we have Windows MEloaded, we cannot ping any server on our network once the VPN client is running.

There are no known tech notes on the Novell Web Site regarding this issue, and I have already tried to download the latest VPN client. No luck. Any suggestions??

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by papachuck

I ran into the same problem with the Cisco VPN login and I had to disable the new ICS on the windows ME system before it would even allow a connection..... Also ME has gutted out a lot of Networking components in the OS and is not recommended to be used on any network except for the Dialin ISP or Cable modem connection. ME ICS can allow a machine to act as a gateway for a small (5) machine network to connect using one machine but it will get in the way of any other networking scheme you want to implement...Have the users go back to Win98 or got to Win2K for reliable VPN connections.

by apham

Temporary solution
For Windows Me:
The VPN Client v2.5 Rel works fine on Windows ME as long as Dial-Up-Networking is NOT installed. When Windows Me was in the beta phase, Ciso did all of testing on Windows ME Release Candidate 3 and it worked. In the final release of ME, TCP/IP stack was modified which broke the vpn
client.
Cisco develpment team is working on this issue and hopefully, Cisco will get a new client very shortly for Windows 2000 is in beta testing right now.
It will not be available until March 2001.
Cisco is in the process of fixing the Me related bugs with TCP/IP stack with
Dialup networking.

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