Sunday, 21 April 2013

Sonicwall Global VPN Client – Unable to manage networking component. Operating system corruption may be preventing installation error.

Whilst recently trying to install the Sonicwall Global VPN Client I encountered the error “Unable to manage networking component. Operating system corruption may be preventing installation” and the installation failed. sonicwall logo

The initial thought was that the firewall and antivirus were affecting the installation so these were disabled. Unfortunately, the installation still failed . After abit of google searching, I came across an article that referred to DNE. For the uninitiated DNE is the acronym for Deterministic Network Enhancer and is often associated with Citrix and Cisco VPNs.

Although, the problem wasn’t related to an installation of Citrix, I found the following fix in a Citrix forum and it worked perfectly for my sonicwall issue. Hopefully it will work for you too.

1. Go to the registry i.e Start > Run > type in regedit.
2. Go to ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\MaxNumFilters’
3. If the value is showing as 8, set it to 14.
4. Reboot and retry the installation.


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19 comments:

  1. Anonymous19 June 2013 at 12:25

    I was getting the same error. Turns out that I was using the 32-bit installer on a 64-bit system. Needless to say, using the 64-bit installer resolved for me. Must need more coffee...

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  2. Anonymous28 June 2013 at 07:51

    Thanks !

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  3. Anonymous13 July 2013 at 17:02

    Yea! Worked for me!

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  4. Anonymous24 September 2013 at 06:53

    64 bit was the problem for me! Downloaded the 64 bit client and it worked like a dream!

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  5. Syl27 September 2013 at 05:53

    This trick did the job for me Win 7 Pro 32 - did not even need to reboot. Thanks

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  6. Kevin25 October 2013 at 08:48

    Thank you! That helped me in a emergency situation!

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  7. Unknown8 November 2013 at 12:11

    My problem is the opposite. I got the client installed but it doesn't work nor can I remove it because of this error and the fact that this key doesn't exist in the registry.

    Only other option I see at this point is to reformat the stupid thing because I can't find any other fix than this and this one isn't a fix for me.

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  8. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 18:37

    Holy Shizbot Batman, it actually worked! You saved my bacon SupportTech. My Sonicwall Global VPN and Win7 64bit are now bff

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  9. Supporting Tech20 January 2014 at 04:59

    Thanks for all the comments - Really glad it helped you guys out !

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  10. Anonymous3 June 2014 at 04:34

    My problem is I have a Windows 8 64-bit and gives me the same error when installing the 64-bit client. Access to the registry editor and there isn´t the key to change. What can I do?

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  11. Supporting Tech27 July 2014 at 11:20

    Unfortunately, we no longer use Sonicwalls so I don't have access to the client for testing. Hopefully, another visitor to this blog will post the solution for 64 bit.

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  12. Anonymous8 September 2014 at 01:54

    Fantastic, this fix worked for me. Thanks for posting.

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  13. Anonymous1 May 2015 at 16:47

    Check UAC and/or permissions. We had a similar issue with another VPN client that required a permissions change on the destinationd irectory and the executable. Even after the install completed we encountered the issue and it was permissions related.

    You could also check compatability mode and try the install with that.

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  14. dcrellim10 August 2015 at 12:01

    Worked for me without reboot! thanks for sharing this.

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  15. Alan P.C.1 September 2015 at 01:17

    I tried expanding the number of filters, confirmed it was 64 architecture and the permissions post helped me. If you use Cygwin on your Win7 be careful. I've changed permissions recursively, therefore modifying default permissions. Make a backup of your permissions if you plan on using Cygwin.

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  16. VMS28 January 2016 at 08:06

    None of the sugestions worked for me on Windows 10 and I need the older VPN client as I'm running a TZ170.

    Managed to get this working by installing the latest Dell Client (v4.9.9.1016), close the VPN client after it auto starts, then I installed SonicWALL client (v4.6.4.0114) over the top.

    The Dell clients won't connect to my old TZ170 which is why I over installed the older SonicWALL client, but the older client won't install without doing the above.

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  17. ED14 June 2018 at 12:54

    Worked for me thanks!

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  18. Anonymous12 November 2020 at 07:54

    Thanks a lot, this solution worked for us (win 7 32bit)

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