After some tweaking, I solved the error Error 720 on a Windows 7 machine connecting via a PPTP VPN. Solving PPTP VPN Error 7. Windows 7. My Problem When trying to connect from a Windows 7 workstation to a PPTP VPN being served by a Server 2. RRAS I received VPN Error 7. OutlookScanpst. exe CProgram FilesMicrosoft. A connection to the remote computer might not be established. You might need to change the network settings for this connection. This would happen after the Verifying username and password phase during the Registering your computer on the network phase. My Solution Rebuild the TCPIP stack by opening an elevated command prompt and running the following command netsh int ip reset. The Long Story Im running Windows 7 RC and have a PPTP VPN connectoid that connects to a Server 2. RRAS server. I was able to successfully connect just yesterday but today when I attempt to connect it gets as far as Registering your computer on the network and then fails with Error 7. A connection to the remote computer might not be established. You might need to change the network settings for this connection. sighI always hate it when things that worked one day suddenly and with seemingly no reason stop working. To my knowledge no updates have been applied to the server or to my Windows 7 machine in the time between yesterday and today. First I check to see if my Virtual XP instance can connect to the VPN. I created a new VPN connectoid and was able to connect with no problems using simple default settings. I then looked at my Windows 7 connectoids options and did a little twiddling like disabling include Windows logon domain not sure how that got enabled in the first place and moved it from PPTP to Automatic all it does is delay the logon time while it tries to figure out how to connect from among the available options but I figured it was worth a try. Still no luck. I created a brand new connectoid using the default values for everything and it still gave me Erorr 7. Fortunately I have a secondary VPN that I use for just such an occasion. Its via a Sonic. WALL TZ 1. 80 using the lone Sonic. WALL Global VPN Client license that came with the firewall. I connected with that so I could check out the RRAS server. The RRAS service was started and the RRAS console showed that all seemed well. I decided to restart the RRAS service from the console and got a little misty that I was saying goodbye to 1. After the service restart I still received Error 7. Fare thee well 1. I feel that your death was in vain. Looking back, I suppose it was unlikely that the problem was the server since the XP machine could connect, but you never know. I decided to try the sweeping netsh int ip reset reset. IP. log to reset the TCPIP stack. The log simply stated Reseting Global, OK Reseting Interface, OKReseting Unicast Address, OK Restart the computer to complete this action. Super. I restarted, tried again and voil I was able to connect with no problems Farewell, VPN Error 7. As to what caused this issue in the first place Ill never know.
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