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Cisco VPN & Remote Desktop Killed by Snow Leopard

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dgm

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Nov 20, 2008
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Upgraded to SL on Friday evening and so far it seems to be working great. However, both my Cisco VPN Client and my Remote Desktop now refuse to run.

With Cisco I get: Error 51 Unable to communicate with the VPN subsytem

Remote Desktop: Remote Desktop Quit Unexpectedly.


Anyone have suggestions for me? I really need these 2 applications to log into my office computer while I'm at home.

thanks!
Daniel
 
Yes I noticed the same thing after I upgraded but after a quick Google search it turned out that SL has VPN... BUILT IN! :eek:

Just go to Network Preferences, bottom-left hit the "+" button and add a Interface of type VPN. You'll figure out the rest from there. Mine is setup using a shared secret key and it works flawlessly.

It's better integrated and easier to use than Cisco's crappy VPN client.

Enjoy.
 
Oh and as for Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection. That continued to work fine for me after the upgrade. So I suggest perhaps a reinstall of that.
 
Remote desktop and Cisco VPN work fine for me. I did a clean install, not an upgrade.
 
dgm said:
Upgraded to SL on Friday evening and so far it seems to be working great. However, both my Cisco VPN Client and my Remote Desktop now refuse to run.

With Cisco I get: Error 51 Unable to communicate with the VPN subsytem

Remote Desktop: Remote Desktop Quit Unexpectedly.


Anyone have suggestions for me? I really need these 2 applications to log into my office computer while I'm at home.

thanks!
Daniel
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I can help with the Cisco VPN problem, since I had the same one when I first upgraded. Just reinstall the application, and it will work just fine. If you don't have the original installation file, you'll need to search the web for version 4.9.01.0180. Plenty of universities host it for free download. Something about the Snow Leopard installation breaks the client, but reinstalling it fixes it. I'm having to use the standalone Cisco client now because the built-in client doesn't do IPSec over UDP. I've had no trouble using Remote Desktop, so I'm not sure what's going on there.
 
BklynKid said:
Just curious. Why do you guys still use Cisco's VPN client when SL has support for it built-in now?
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Because as I mentioned in another post, the SL client doesn't do IPSec over UDP connections, so those of us in that situation are stuck with the Cisco client until Apple decides to fix that.
 
rwilliams said:
Because as I mentioned in another post, the SL client doesn't do IPSec over UDP connections, so those of us in that situation are stuck with the Cisco client until Apple decides to fix that.
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Yea I edited my post after I actually fully read yours. I'm surprised it doesn't work over UDP. It does seem like an unusual setup, though.
 
BklynKid said:
Yes I noticed the same thing after I upgraded but after a quick Google search it turned out that SL has VPN... BUILT IN! :eek:

Just go to Network Preferences, bottom-left hit the "+" button and add a Interface of type VPN. You'll figure out the rest from there. Mine is setup using a shared secret key and it works flawlessly.

It's better integrated and easier to use than Cisco's crappy VPN client.

Enjoy.
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That's good to know. Cheers for that. Do you know if you have the ability to import the .pcf files that the Cisco client uses?
 
rwilliams said:
Because as I mentioned in another post, the SL client doesn't do IPSec over UDP connections, so those of us in that situation are stuck with the Cisco client until Apple decides to fix that.
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I'll also add that it (SL's Cisco IPSec implementation) seems significantly slower than the Cisco client software. That is a very non-scientific conclusion I've drawn after using it several times since Friday. Not sure if it's my imagination, but that's the feeling i get.
 
BklynKid said:
Yea I edited my post after I actually fully read yours. I'm surprised it doesn't work over UDP. It does seem like an unusual setup, though.
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True. I'm hoping Apple updates the built-in client so that I can use that instead of Cisco's. I don't know why, but I hate that little thing.
 
I'm using Cisco VPN Client 4.9.01 (0100) and it works fine, though I did have to reinstall it. What version do you have?

The built in Cisco VPN is *****.
 
BklynKid said:
I've tried CoRD before but it seemed laggy to me for some reason or another. Does CoRD have folder sharing these days?
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Older version were indeed very laggy. The latest version is quite good. I do not believe it supports folder sharing, but I haven't looked into it deeply.
 
Hmm after two people have said that SL's built-in solution is "*****" and slower than Cisco's, I think I have to go back and revisit it and test it for myself. I was just super excited to not have to launch Cisco's app, the convenience of it took over me.

Honestly though, and I don't know if this is due to SL's overall snappiness, my remote desktop connection has never appeared faster to me. This is using SL's built-in Cisco IPSec.

Weird.
 
well, although excited at first, I have realized that I also need IPSec/UDP and the built in SL one is useless for me.

I need to find a download (upgrade) of the Cisco client and am having trouble finding a free one. Anyone have a link to share?

thanks
 
My remote desktop works fine after upgrade.

I have NetExtender VPN from Sonicwall and it works fine after upgrade too.
 
Cisco working on SL for me.

It gave the same error as the OP. But, I just deleted and re-installed. Easy-Pesy..
 
I noticed that the /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN directory got removed after installing SL. I simply restored it from the time capsule then ran sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN start . After that I was able to use my CiscoVPN client and did not lose any of my connection entries.
 
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