VPN1-SecuRemote-R56-Build615-doesn't recognize .EPF

[RichardPSC]

I am moving from a Win2k Dell laptop to a WinXP IBM Thinkpad.

I am using the above build of SecuRemote on the Win2K machine and using an entrust profile for certification and it is working fine.

When I load the same software on the WinXP machine there isn't an option in the create site process to use an entrust profile. For example on the Authentication screen I choose certificate but when I browse to find the certificate the only options in File type box is .p12 and .pfx. If I force it to use my .epf file then I get the error "TokenLogin : failed to get token from filename".

My corporate VPN admin team have no idea.
In fact I was telling them things about Securemote that they didn't know which was pretty scary (after spending 3 weeks with this problem I guess some things are sinking in).

I have tried some extreme things like uninstalling VPN and trying to purge all the garbage out of my Resistry (in case there was some setting that was disabling .epf).

Any ideas are welcome.

Appreciatively, Richard.

 

[RichardPSC]

Responding to my own thread....when I said Resistry above I meant Registry.

Also before I posted this I read through a lot of the other posts to see if the answer to this was there....so I noticed that a lot of users have home office issues.

Two (kind of non-VPN related) things that dramatically improved my home office experience (on a VPN that was already configured correctly were the following):

1) Get Uninterruptible Power Supplies for all modems/routers/hubs. This made a huge difference as I think brownouts were killing my connection. Also as I am using laptops it means I can work through a complete power outage.

2) One of the VPNs I used had a very quick 'timeout' value set at the host end. So I had a startup .bat file that had this in it "ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -t". (where the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of a server on the host network). The -t keeps the ping being sent over and over. This prevented my access from timing out.