HTC Tytn II - VPN Connection

Alwyn Swart

Alwyn Swart

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Hey everyone!!

Bought the Tytn II over the weekend as a Standby tool for work. When a program 'falls over' after work it is required that I 'Putty' into the Unix box and investigate the problem... This part is working correctly, I establish a '3G, GPRS' connection, also a 'VPN Connection' (that I set up before hand) and start PocketPutty and it connects.

Also as part of my responsibility is to access an web page that is only visible on our intranet, to log the issue... This is where the problem comes in... As above, I connect the '3G, GPRS' connection, also the 'VPN Connection' but then when I start Internet Explorer and type in the url and press 'GO' IE drops my VPN connection and the web page fails...

The reason I know it is a setting on my phone is because when I connect my phone to my laptop via the USB cable I can access the intranet web page/application... This also work with my laptop and a external 3G modem... just my phone giving me a hard time :)

Does anyone have a idea how to set up my phone's connection settings so this would work?

Thanks in advance for all the help guys, read through some post on this forum and the people around here seems to be very helpful :D

Regards,
Alwyn Swart
 
Hey guys, me again... Played around with my settings, but not luck yet... Got both connections '3G, GPRS' and 'VPN' to stay connected after I click the URL of intranet web page, but the page loads very long but after a while window pops up with the message 'page could not be loaded, server unavailable or DNS problem' or something like that :)

Currently on my laptop, connected with my external 3G modem and also connected via the work VPN and I can see the page I'm looking for... so its not the server that is unavailable...

Hope someone can help...
 
Seems like I'm answering my own question... well almost :P

If you go to start-settings-connections-advance-exceptions and you type the URL as an 'exception' in the text field if you connect to that page the default VPN connection, thats the one you set up in 'My work connection' will automatically fire up... In other words, internat like normal until you hit the page and the VPN connection fires...

Well that did not solve the problem for me... thought it would, because I'm then connected to the works intranet and thus I should be able to connect to the page... but not... tested the connectivity of the VPN, when I open PocketPutty I can connect, so the connection seems fine.

Thought I'd post my findings :)
 
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Might be a problem with the mobile web browser, try opera. This is very specialized, so if you want an answer on the connectivity side, just give it time.
 
Connected my phone to my laptop to ensure that the web page will be found, connected vi IE and the web page displays... That is now if I'm connected to my laptop with the USB cable... If I now enter Opera Mini and click the URL I get a 'Server Time out'...

Also if I disconnect my USB and connect to the web page IE picks the URL up that I set up in the exceptions tab and connects to the VPN, but with Opera Mini this does not happen... If I then explicitly call the VPN connection and launch Opera Mini my VPN connection is dropped...
 
Maybe my answer lies in a 3de party VPN client... anyone know of a VPN client that work on WM6? Preferable free of charge ;)
 
You got PM ;)

Do you guy's think Windows Mobile 6.1 is worth installing? Downloaded the ROM from HTC site after signing up for a membership and registering my phone... Want to know if it is worth the effort, as the installation will reset all my settings and delete all my data...
 
Quick question... The intranet side url ends with ..com:7777

Do you guys think the APN is blocking this port?
 
Good day guys!!

Been some changes in this issue of mine... spoke to the technical guys at work, seems like what I'm trying to do is not going to work, the web page is not on the intranet of our work, but rather on the intranet at our client... So if I VPN to work, they in turn VPN to our client an a connection is established this way... The reason why this method work is that a routing IP is manually set up on my laptop...

My next step was to download a 3de party VPN client, got the one from Blue Fire, thanks goes to Q-man!! Set up the connection directly to the client, and a connection was successful. But if I open the web page it still just loads and fails... Downloaded a Ping and IP trace utility for my phone, after running that I came to the conclusion that my phone is indeed choosing the wrong adapter to go through, choosing the wrong path, ot is not going through the connected VPN connection to try and open the web page, but rather it tries to go through the 3G connection established by the phone...

Consulting a few people, it seems like a WM6 thing, the IP tables is incorrect... So now I must find a way to correctly rout my connection to the VPN one...

Any suggestions?
 
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