[Vpn-help] [SOLVED] 2.1.0 alpha failed to connect to the server

[Matthew Grooms]

Tai-hwa Liang wrote:
> 
>   More digging showed that my ancient installation of VPN client
> (back to the time amd64/x86 were not separated builds) left amd64 and
> x86 directory, which consists of old vfilter.sys.  A quick file search
> gave me following directories where vfilter.sys resided on:
> 
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers                36 KB
> C:\Program Files\ShrewSoft\VPN Client\drivers        40 KB
> C:\WINDOWS\LastGood\system32\DRIVERS            36 KB
> C:\Program Files\ShrewSoft\VPN Client\drivers\amd64    45 KB
> C:\Program Files\ShrewSoft\VPN Client\drivers\x86    36 KB
> 
>    After uninstalling alpha2 and manually removing the 'VPN Client'
> directory, the reinstallation of alpha2 now gives me a 40 KB vfilter.sys
> and a working VPN client!
> 
>    Thank you very much for the hint.
> 

I'm just glad we found the problem :) I suspect this was from a previous 
alpha or beta version of the VPN client and hopefully this problem wont 
bite too many others. Stable releases are tested pretty throughly for 
any installer related issues. Thanks again for the follow up!

-Matthew