I love Windows 7. I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks now as my primary OS, and recently formatted ALL of my computer to it. It’s awesome. I haven’t been able to use my SonicWall VPN client though. After coming the forums, I found a solution (use at your own risk though).
1) Open Command Prompt
2) Type "Set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1", Enter
3) Type "devmgmt.msc" to open the device manager, Enter
4) In the menu, go to View -> Show Hidden Devices
5) Expand the Non-Plug and Play node (expanded by default)
6) Right click on the SonicWall IPSec Driver, Properties, Go to Drivers Tab
7) Set Startup Type to Automatic
8) Click OK
9) Reboot and enjoy
Optionally, you may want to also set the DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=0 after you are done, but it’s beta anyway right?
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Another way to get at the property page is to type this into a run box:
rundll32.exe devmgr.dll, DeviceProperties_RunDLL /DeviceId ROOT\LEGACY_RCFOX\0000
I found that via the new Win7 Hardware Troubleshooter (nifty little feature)
this works great if you already have it installed but the installer doesnt work on win7rc1 so how do you get that to work?
I haven't had any issues installing it on any build of win7 I've had. Can you be more specific on what you are trying to install it on? 32 or 64 bit?
i can get the client to installed and setup a connection, but it will never make a working connection...
on windows 7 RC1 7100 x64.
is the working setup on 32 or 64bit?
Same situation as the last anonymous poster. I can get the client set up and it looks like it is connected, but I can't ping anything on the office network.
Nate,
I'm not really an expert on the application, but what you are describing sounds more like a configuration problem. Since I mostly discovered this "fix" by accident and it isn't supported by Sonic Wall, I'm afraid there isn't much help I can offer. If you were able to run the exact same connection on Vista, then it could a be a problem with the application. Have you tried running the same thing on an older OS to see if that worked?
Sonicwall has no Apple client and is always late in supporting new OSs; amazing people continue to buy their stuff.
SW get your act together or get out of town!
I can't get the VPN client to work with Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 -- the RTM's... followed these steps.
If you want to email me about this issue, I can try and help you work through it. I just paved my machine with RTM this weekend and it worked fine.
Pehaps it would be illuminating to know which VERSIONS of the cilent you are workign with.
I am using version 4.1.1.302. I'm not sure how much different the version will make though. The issue is really with the driver they are installing with the client, which I don't think they have updated in a while. It's probably not even written by them. Let me know if you need any more help.
Intersting string - I have the same issue. I installed 7 32 bit and after the first fix in this string I now get "A device atttached to the system is not functioning" even though under dev mgr it is now showing as automatic. Odd. Any thoughts? thanks
Now if I can just get it to load pre-logon...
I have installed Sonicwall VPN Client on Win7 but after the computer goes to sleep I have to close the client from the system tray and reopen it to connect this happen every time before it will just auto connect with windows vista and on the XP partition
I just ran into the same thing here. Worked like a charm. Thank's everybody.
I just installed the latest version of the vpn client, on an update fresh install of win 7.. boom blue screen of death on first connection attempt.
I currently use Windows 7 and I ran into this problem. I'll will surely try this out. Thank you very much.
It is nice I must say. As a matter of fact, using my VPN connection from home is much faster. I'm not a engineering genius or anything.
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