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Cisco VPN Client Service Error

I am currently trying to fix a problem with one of our VPN users' computer. We have a Cisco Pix 501 firewall which handles our VPN connections to work, each of the VPN client machines are running Cisco VPN Client 3.6.3. There are no known problems with establishing a connection, I just don't seem to be able to get the client software working properly on a Windows XP Professional machine. The program installs fine, however when it is run the error message I get is:

'The necessary VPN sub-system is not available. You can not connect to the remote VPN server.'

I checked the Services from Administrative tools and the Cisco VPN Server (cvpnd.exe) was not started. When I manually start the service the VPN client connects without a problem. However, this is not practical and I can't work out why the service will not start when the system is booted. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling/installing a more recent version, each leading to the same problem. After checking event viewer the following error occurs during startup:

'Faulting application cvpnd.exe, version 0.0.0.0 faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0 fault address 0x0012e74c'

If anyone has fixed this problem before I would be grateful for your help.

Thanks in advance
Dave

grblades

Hi dunelm_dave,
Do you have SP2 installed?
If you do then I recomend you install version 4.5 of the client.

dunelm_dave

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Thanks for the quick response.

SP2 is installed on the machine, however I tried version 4.5 and the same error occured. We have other windows XP professional machines running SP2 which can connect without problem using version 3.6.3, therefore I don't think it is a SP2 issue.

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