Sunday, March 7, 2010

VPN Connection

I found a strange thing happen to my VPN connection yesterday. I suddenly lost all my connection entries in my VPN connection. I could see all of them but the settings for each of them were lost. STRANGE. So, on clicking on any one of them, I would get this error: "Error 5: No host name exists for this connection entry."
Seems like something corrupted the VPN profile settings. I have not got to the root cause of this yet but I could figure out the way out of this issue. If you go to \Program Files\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\Profiles\Backup, you'll see a file RestoreVPNprofiles.bat. Just run that; if you have an instance of VPN open, close it and open again and it restores all the entry settings.