[Pc_Support] Network Connections in Windows XP

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 07:23 -0500, Tim McDonough wrote:
> In my home office I have wireless DSL service. During bad weather 
> (heavy rain, etc.) it occasionally drops out for a second or so. When 
> this happens XP tries to fire off my VPN connection to the office. 
> This won't work because of course that happens over the WDSL.
> The problem is it's really annoying when the connection box pops up 
> for the password and I'm in the middle of writing a document, etc. Is 
> there a way to tell the Windows VPN connection to ONLY try to open 
> when I want it and not have it randomly open trying to find the 
> machine a connection to the outside world? I did not see any obvious 
> settings like an automatic/manual setting, etc.

There are a couple of setting.  In fact, I think the "LAN Settings" are
common to and used by IE, dial-up, VPN and other details (if you're
using the Microsoft IPSec client).  You just need to disable the
automatic connection setting.


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