How to Accept VPN connections?

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  1. Posts : 11
    Windows 7 Ultimate
       #1

    How to Accept VPN connections?


    Hi guys,

    I'm going crazy here... I am looking for a way to enable VPN connections TO my Windows 7 machine. I cannot seem to find this anywhere.

    I know this was kinda hidden on Vista too, but in Win7 I cannot even find it!

    Can someone PLEASE point me in the right direction. I'd like to be able to connect via VPN to my home machine when I'm not around, you know - access shared folders, printers and such.

    I really hope they put this in the beta and that I am just blind and not seeing it.
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  2. Posts : 308
    xp/vista/win7/win8/10 tech preview
       #2

    peconi said:
    Hi guys,

    I'm going crazy here... I am looking for a way to enable VPN connections TO my Windows 7 machine. I cannot seem to find this anywhere.

    I know this was kinda hidden on Vista too, but in Win7 I cannot even find it!

    Can someone PLEASE point me in the right direction. I'd like to be able to connect via VPN to my home machine when I'm not around, you know - access shared folders, printers and such.

    I really hope they put this in the beta and that I am just blind and not seeing it.
    hi open control panel - network and sharing center - change adapter settings
    while the window is open press alt and the menu bar will be visible then go file new incoming connection and follow the prompts

    cheers brad
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  3. Posts : 11
    Windows 7 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #3

    !!!!!!! THANK YOU !!!!!!

    You're the man!

    I was looking for this, pulling my hair... Talk about placement man :)
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  4. Posts : 15
    window 7 build 7048 x64
       #4

    nice. what i am curious about is the passwords that are already in the admin, guest, and my account. i did not, since i am a single user, set up passwords on my machine. especially not one that is 15 characters. are there 'default' passwords?

    am thinking of using a remote connection to check my box from work via the internet.

    thanks.
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  5. Posts : 308
    xp/vista/win7/win8/10 tech preview
       #5

    looniam said:
    nice. what i am curious about is the passwords that are already in the admin, guest, and my account. i did not, since i am a single user, set up passwords on my machine. especially not one that is 15 characters. are there 'default' passwords?

    am thinking of using a remote connection to check my box from work via the internet.

    thanks.
    the fifteen digits you are referring to is not a password its a default that they put there if you haven't made a password just make one for your user account.
    to use the admin account you need to do some modifications to get it to show up
    here is the tut to enable it Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable

    ir you want to check your email account you should set up remote desktop sharing




    cheers brad
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  6. Posts : 995
    XP/win7 x86 build 7127
       #6

    chinga69 said:
    hi open control panel - network and sharing center - change adapter settings
    while the window is open press alt and the menu bar will be visible then go file new incoming connection and follow the prompts

    cheers brad
    well i'll be a son of a monkey's uncle......

    I dont think i would have known to do, or found this in a microsoft millenium....

    hitting alt to bring up the file menu..... sheeeeeesh

    I gotta ask brad, how did you stumble across this yourself? from vista or just searching? i never used the buena vista myself.... just wondering.....

    Ever tried finding lost dogs to collect rewards? You might be pretty darn good at that too haha
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  7. Posts : 11
    Windows 7 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #7

    I knew about this in Vista, but if I recall it was under Tools menu or something.

    It never even came to my mind to look into the FILE menu. Yea I guess, creating a new connection deals with "Files!".... Amazing :), what is this, Linux?
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  8. Posts : 308
    xp/vista/win7/win8/10 tech preview
       #8

    yes i tried doing it in vista and the help files explain how to do it

    cheers brad
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  9. Posts : 995
    XP/win7 x86 build 7127
       #9

    chinga69 said:
    yes i tried doing it in vista and the help files explain how to do it

    cheers brad
    Yea, i feel like "duh" since you said that lol... i had one look at the help files for something else and thought " well ... that was nothing".

    Ok, now on same vpn thing. No problems setting up, i just have a gripe now and wonder if there is a fix, i cant find one. Problem is, after creating user/pass for vpn, it now puts that user on the welcome screen. Now if say i had a somewhat dedicated vpn machine, and setup numerous users, I dont want them all cluttered up on the welcome screen. I went thru properties and also user accounts and seen nothing. Just that of course the vpn users dont show up under user accounts.

    Is there a "fix" for this brad... or should i fire up the feedback?
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  10. Posts : 436
    Windows 7 Build 7048 x64
       #10

    Digger said:
    Ok, now on same vpn thing. No problems setting up, i just have a gripe now and wonder if there is a fix, i cant find one. Problem is, after creating user/pass for vpn, it now puts that user on the welcome screen. Now if say i had a somewhat dedicated vpn machine, and setup numerous users, I dont want them all cluttered up on the welcome screen. I went thru properties and also user accounts and seen nothing. Just that of course the vpn users dont show up under user accounts.
    You can explicitly tell windows not to show a particular user in the logon screen by doing the following tested steps;

    Open regedit
    Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
    Select the user name you want to hide and change it's value to 0.

    Note: If keys SpecialAccounts and UserList does not exist, you can create them accordingly. To add a user, create a new DWORD32 with the value name = <username you want to hide> and a value data = 0. You can do this to all the accounts you want to hide from the welcome screen.

    Hope that answers your question.

    Cheers
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