ooo BONJOUR FOLDER!!!

colinuk

colinuk

colinuk

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Just spent 2 hours working out why the VPN at work would not work [lets you log on then drops connection after 2-3 secs] on some laptops... Turns out, installing things like QuickTime and even Adobe CS3 Suite has a little program called

Bonjour.

Allows the pc in question to find devicies without the user having to put anything in. Problem is, it is known to be a PITA for juniper/vpn's. Well, i learnt that today.

So, FYI, if you find your VPN stops working, well, allows to in for 2 secs then chucks you off, check in Program files for a folder called BONJOUR...

Hope it helps someone out there. Be nice to give some help back to you lot who help me when im stuck.

ColiN
 
Yes. I hate Bonjour. It is quite ironically named. iTunes installs it. From what I know it is pretty useless on Windows as there are other apps/protocols what have you to do this. It seems it is more an Apple Mac OS thang and this confuses me as I've no idea why Windows iTunes users have to get lumbered with this. At least give us the choice in the install not to install it please Steve.
 
Its not as straight forward as just deleting the folder, you need to do 2 run line commands then reboot, then you can delete the said folder. If you cant find these lines, let me know ill go dig them out for you all.
 
Bonjour is quite handy for printer sharing from Mac OS X to windows (especially in my case as there are no Vista x64 drivers for my Canon LBP-5000 but there is a 64bit version of bonjour).

Is there no work-around with the Juniper VPN app?
 
The only work around we could find, after talking to our sorces at Juniper is to uninstall the folder. Seems to cause a lot of headaches and support calls to Juniper.

Problem comes when you try to remove the folder and it says, nope, you have to unistall using regsrv32 commands and reboots to get rid of the thing!...

Still, we learn something new everyday in IT :)
 
colinuk said:
Its not as straight forward as just deleting the folder, you need to do 2 run line commands then reboot, then you can delete the said folder. If you cant find these lines, let me know ill go dig them out for you all.
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Um no.

start
run
cmd
cd \
cd program files
cd bonjour
mdnsresponder -remove
del *
cd ..
deltree bonjour

Done. No reboot required. If you are scared of command line then
start
run
services.msc
stop bonjour
turn bonjour start up mode to disabled.
Then delete the folder.
 
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