It is considered a ''virtual'' adapter since the packets never actually leave the client machine through that adapter. It appears to the operating system as another adapter. Select the driver needed and press download. The Virtual Adapter (VA) is a method to present to the local client machine an interface using remote access service (RAS) or dial-up networking (DUN).
#UNINSTALL JUNIPER NETWORK CONNECT VIRTUAL ADAPTER DRIVERS#
My Win 8.0 laptop alsoĭoes not have the driver so it really wasn't ever needed. Juniper Network Connect Virtual Adapter - there are 2 drivers found for the selected device, which you can download from our website for free. The 'dsNcService.exe' process is one component of software created by Juniper Networks for enterprises, institutions, or governments that have a Juniper-powered Virtual Private Network (VPN) and want to allow employees remote access and control of their company workstations. I should also mention that the virtual driver is no longer present in Device Manager, so my theory is that the 8.1 upgrade misinterpreted Juniper to need a device driver so created a device driver that was causing the issue. I then was able to delete that directly from Device Manager then did the Juniper reinstall and it worked right away. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\ROOT\DSNCADPT\0001Īfter the first attempt at reinstallation post-registry change above, it created a "Juniper Network Connect Virtual Adapter #4" driver entry in device manager. So, I removed all the values, which was enough to make it appear uninstalled. Delete c:windowssystem32driversdsNcAdpt. Lack of permissions, even though I was the owner of said folder. Uninstall the Juniper app from Progs and Features, in my case just the Juniper Networks Network Connect 6.5.0 app. I went in to the registry but was unable to delete the folder due to I could not uninstall it directly from Device Manager, such that I would run the uninstall but the driver remained. I had considerable difficulty removing the driver. I'm using Juniper 6.5.0.ġ) Delete the "phantom" Juniper Network Connect Virtual Adapter VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter (Network Address Translation (NAT) for VMnet8) free download. I experienced the same issue after I upgraded my 8.0 to the 8.1 Pro Preview.