[vpn-help] VPN on Win7

Matthew Grooms mgrooms at shrew.net
Tue Jan 5 17:56:23 CST 2010


On 12/21/2009 4:18 PM, Ad van den Broek wrote:
> At my work a VPN facility is available.
> It is based on a Cisco PIX 501 gateway (probably version 5).
>
> I used a notebook with Win-XP and created a VPN connection.
> The setup was quite easily and it worked fine.
>
> Recently I replaced the Win-XP notebook
> with a Win7 notebook.
>
> The VPN connection I created on the Win7 machine is not working.
>
> On internet I red that the VPN-client of Win7 requires a IKE2 key
> and that my gateway probably is not supporting this.
> Perhaps this is correct so I have to find an alternative.
>
> People suggested me to install the Shrew VPN client on Win7.
>
> I installed it but it is not working either.
> Probably the reason it is not working is the fact that
> I am not familiar with authentication or encryption
> and so I basically have no idea what to setup.
>
> Some people suggested to import a pcf-configuration-file of the gateway.
> But I have no idea where to find or how to export/create a pcf-file.
>
> Can somebody guide me in the right direction ?
>

Your best bet is to copy the PCF file that is installed along with the 
working Cisco VPN client. I forget which directory this is stored in, 
but I'm pretty sure you can just copy it out. It may even be possible to 
export it from the GUI but I honestly can't remember.

Good luck,

-Matthew



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