David Klein's Corner: Fix - My SonicWall Client Keeps Prompting for a Phone Book Entry even though I'm already connected

Thursday, 8 September 2011

Fix - My SonicWall Client Keeps Prompting for a Phone Book Entry even though I'm already connected

When connecting via Telstra Mobile Broadband and attempting to connect to a SonicWall VPN with the SonicWall client, I kept getting prompted for a Dialup Phone Book entry mutliple times. Every time I connected (though not when using normal wireless from home), I had to keep attempting a connection until the username and password prompt displayed.

The fix for this problem is to ensure that the "LAN Only" drop down is selected:
1) Open the SonicWall VPN Global Client
2) Click on Peers and Choose the correct connection; Click Edit
3) Under Interface Selection, Choose "LAN Only" rather than "Automatic" in the drop down list.

23 comments:

Ashwath said...: thanks for the post. helped me.; 4 February 2012 at 19:35
Irving Washington said...: Thank's I always appreciate quick concise instructions. Solved my problem in 5 mintues; 9 January 2013 at 09:12
admin said...: Your information got me past an obstacle. Thanks for sharing.; 2 February 2013 at 05:03
oshkoshgeek said...: Thanks for this! It helped me get the Sonicwall client working from Starbucks so I can stay away from my very distracting office.; 27 March 2013 at 01:40
Sabrina said...: Thanks a lot. Solved my problem.; 30 March 2013 at 07:09
Sandia Harrison said...: Thanks! My problem was the opposite. It said Automatic but kept prompting me to use dial-up, which I didn't want to do. Selecting LAN only forced it to connect properly using my broadband.; 2 June 2013 at 12:46
Jason said...: Thanks! This was driving me batty! I don't have a lot of experience with SonicWall and it always seems to be that if you know the tricks it works amazing, if not...then there are little things like this that will drive you crazy.; 20 June 2013 at 01:36
Barrywhite32 said...: When I do this, I can no longer get past the Connecting stage :(; 23 July 2013 at 03:00
Evans said...: Outstanding! Thanks for the fix! Got me out of a bind.; 21 December 2013 at 02:05
javajive said...: David! Thanks for posting this fix. One of my remote technicians was having this problem, and for the life of me I could not find what was causing it. Finally, relented and Googled - thankfully finding your post.

Thanks a million!
Perri
(www.javalotjive.com); 1 February 2014 at 03:42
javajive said...: David! Thanks for posting this fix. One of my remote technicians was having this problem, and for the life of me I could not find what was causing it. Finally, relented and Googled - thankfully finding your post.

Thanks a million!
Perri
(www.javalotjive.com); 1 February 2014 at 03:42
javajive said...: Awesome! Thanks a million. One of my remote technicians was having this problem repeatedly and I could not figure out what was causing it until I Googled and found your post. Really helped in a frustrating situation!

Cheers!
Perri
(JavalotJive.com); 1 February 2014 at 03:44
Azim said...: thanks for the post. helped me.; 9 April 2014 at 19:25
Unknown said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1 May 2014 at 14:15
Unknown said...: Thanks a lot.
Saving precious time rather than to spend it googled, now we can utilize it in effective manner to complete an urgent task.; 1 May 2014 at 14:19
Unknown said...: Thank you!; 29 May 2014 at 21:00
rmcubed said...: Thanks, very helpful; 29 September 2014 at 17:43
Unknown said...: Thanks! Fixed Windows 8 base installation of SonicWall for me.; 8 January 2015 at 02:33
Unknown said...: You're the man!; 8 January 2015 at 02:37
Keith said...: Thank you! very helpful.; 22 January 2015 at 13:03
Hank Forowsky said...: Thank You Very Much!!! You save me!; 2 March 2015 at 23:40
Anonymous said...: Thanks.Cool fix for Sonicwall.
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Unknown said...: Thanks a lot for your job.Nice fix for Sonicwall.
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