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was recently re-setting up my Windows 7 VPN server and forgot an essential step that led me to get ‘Error 720: A Connection to the remote computer could not
Error 720 A Connection To The Remote
be established' when trying to connect to it with Windows-based clients. Turns out
Error 720 A Connection To The Remote Computer
you might need to assign an IP address range to the VPN server, by doing the following: 1. Go into Network error 720 a connection to the remote computer could not be established and Sharing Center > Change Adapter Settings 2. Right click on Incoming Connection 3. Click on the Networking tab and double click on the ‘Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)' checkbox4. Click the ‘Specify https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/eb37b71e-a021-47ee-896e-186cef55bf11/pptp-vpn-on-windows-7-error-720?forum=w7itpronetworking IP addresses' and type an IP range that is in line with your current router setup (e.g. if your LAN is on a 192.168.11.x network, then you might want to set it as follows):You should now find, like me, that the VPN works once more! I'll post up a tutorial on how I got it working and accessible to the public Internet soon.Sharing:TwitterFacebookLinkedInGoogle +1RedditMoreEmailPinterestPrintStumbleUponDigg Tags: error, vpn, http://www.paulkiddie.com/2011/06/a-fix-for-error-720-a-connection-to-the-remote-computer-could-not-be-established-when-trying-to-connect-to-a-windows-7-vpn/ vpn server, windows 7 About Paul Kiddie .NET developer at thetrainline.com, previously web developer at MRM Meteorite. Awarded a PhD in misbehaviour detection in wireless ad-hoc networks.A keen C# ASP.net developer bridging the gap with APIs and JavaScript frameworks, one web app at a time.http://www.paulkiddie.com63 Responses to A fix for Error 720: A Connection to the remote computer could not be established when trying to connect to a Windows 7 VPN Comment navigation← Older Comments Carl March 7, 2014 at 3:32 pmThanks!This fixed my problem too……why can't Micro$oft just write usual error messages in the first place? Ed May 29, 2014 at 11:25 pmThank you for this solution, my connection problem is fixed. Krista Little June 12, 2014 at 1:14 amThank You! Thank You! Thank You! Holashegx@gmail.com June 14, 2014 at 2:04 pmPls wat abt for windows 8 Zeka February 11, 2015 at 11:42 pmWorked for me too! Thanls Mark Jensen February 12, 2015 at 3:15 pmFixed me, too - thanks! Luciano March 28, 2015 at 3:19 pmThank you very much! Fixed my problem, trying to access my Windows 8.1 Pro machine, now VPN is working. I didn't have this problem with Windows 7. kromatyc June 23, 2015 at 5:
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Windows 7 workstation to a PPTP VPN being served by a Server 2003 machine running RRAS I received VPN Error: 720 "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 TCP/IP stack by opening an elevated command prompt and running the following command: netsh int ip reset The Long Story: I'm running Windows 7 RC and have a PPTP VPN connectoid that connects to a Server 2003 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: 720 "A connection to the remote computer might not be established. You might need to change the network settings for this connection." *sigh* I 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 connectoid's 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: 720. Fortunately I have a secondary VPN that I use for just such an occasion. It's via a SonicWALL TZ 180 using the lone SonicWALL 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