[vpn-help] Problem with configuring client settings

[Matthew Grooms]

Kimmo,

Kimmo Koivisto wrote:
> Matthew Grooms kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Sunday 26 February 2006 
> 10:31):
>> It sounds like there may be some problems with dialog layout. Activity
>> will not be displayed in client log window until the connect button is
>> pressed. Are you not seeing the connect or cancel button at the bottom
>> of the VPN client dialog?
> I attached screenshots from the connection dialog and from the auth-tab.
> There's no connect button anywhere, that explains a lot :)
> 

      I was unable to reproduce the exact problem you encountered but 
rewrote the dialog layout code in a way that I hope will resolve your 
issue. To test these changes, please uninstall the previous version and 
reinstall using this package ...

http://www.shrew.net/download/vpn-client-1.0-beta-2.exe

Feedback and a screen shot of the main 'VPN Access Manager' window would 
be greatly appreciated.

>> Also, there should be some output in the log window if the loglevel is
>> set to 3. For example, here is the output before a connection attempt is
>> made ...
> Where the log window shoud be?
> 

      Just in case my previous message was not coherent ( it was 3:00am 
after a Saturday night ;), I wanted to clarify. There is an output 
window in the client dialog, but it only relays status messages 
forwarded from the ipsec daemon. It does not output any debug 
information. The only way to obtain the debug output is to open the log 
file using a text editor.

      If you try using notepad for this, the output will be illegible as 
it expects all lines to be terminated with <CR><NL>. Using wordpad 
yields readable results but it will fail to open the file if the daemon 
still has the file handle open. This is because wordpad attempts to open 
everything using exclusive write access. One way to get around this is 
to simply make a copy of the file before opening it.

      I will be including a debug application with the 1.0 release that 
will have a log file viewer built in so users wont have to deal with 
this sillyness.

Thanks again for trying out the software,

-Matthew