Karl,
Right, but has the VPN software *ever* been installed on your Windows
machine at work?
No, as I am the one who installed everything except for the SMS and
the Terminal Services client. However, I cannot exclude with 100%
certainty that my TCP/IP implementation is still virgin, since
I have installed/uninstalled quite a number of software components.
OTH, I do not log in as Administrator, as a rule, so it is not *that*
easy for me to mess it up.
Can you try another Windows machine at work and see if it gets the same
problem? Such a test would help to uncover anything specific to your
general computer configuration at work (such as some sort of software
installed on all of them, etc.).
I was thinking of that myself - just have to find a willing
developer colleague or a free machine. I do have the option
to use one of the Exceed licenses we have, but I thought I try
it with OpenSource first, as I am involved with it myself.
As for help --- They would at least want you to be running debug
versions of some Cygwin components. Ideally you would do some tracking
down to try to figure out an exact sequence of events that reproduces
the problem in a short amount of time.
Sounds reasonable - mostly a matter of finding the time.
Karl