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This is my first post on this forum so if I am doing something incorrect please feel free to let me know....

Now on to my problem....

I currently run Windows 7 64 bit as my base operating system with 3 raid 0 arrays, 2 network adapters connected to a 30gb cable network, 8gb of ram and a water cooled intel qx6850 cpu.

On this platform, i have been running multiple guest operating systems under microsoft virtual machine, i am really not crazy about how much of my hardware that win 7 is chewing up so I started looking at Ubuntu as a possible alternative. To be able to test Ubuntu I installed Vbox and then created a Ubuntu image and one win xp virtual image. Both images have worked very well and I am almost to the point where I am ready to drop my microsoft virtual machines and run Vbox exclusively but I have one minor glitch, 3 of my win-xp images under the microsoft virtual machines require that they be able to use Microsoft's Virtual Private Networking to connect to different corporate networks, so far no matter what I have tried I can not get a connection with microsoft's virtual private networking on any of the win-xp images under Vbox.

Is it even possible for win-xp under Vbox to establish a microsoft vpn connection or am I wasting my time in trying to use Vbox? Or does anyone know of an alternative to microsoft's vpn facility that will work with win-xp?

Look forward to hearing from anyone with some viable ideas.

Thanks,

JD

I cannot think of any reason why the Microsoft VPN client would not work. I have never seen any difference between WVPC and VirtualBox bridged network behavior. All VPN needs is an IP connection between client and server. If you can ping the VPN server it should work.

I have seen problems where the host has been running a VPN connection. This can affect client network behavior.

What error message do you get when you try to connect?

Thanks for the reply...

I have to admit I was really dumb about this, I assumed that since I was able get to other web sites from my Vbox XP connection that I had network connectivity, however when I ping the vpn server I can't find it, if I try to tracert to the ip address that fails also.

However when i go to one my xp machines under Microsoft's Virtual Machine Facility and try to ping the same vpn server it fails too, but when I activate the vpn connection to the vpn server the ping still fails but the tracert succeeds.

So I am sort of at a standstill, must be something I am over looking but I will be darned if I know what it might be.

JD