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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2001 02:38:19 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Linh Pham" <lplist@closedsrc.org>
Cc:        "Mark Ibell" <marki@paradise.net.nz>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: PPP server problem
Message-ID:  <006701c0cca2$4bf3a1c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104232148480.62084-100000@q.closedsrc.org>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Linh Pham [mailto:lplist@closedsrc.org]
>
>If the client is running Windows 2000, both MS-CHAP and MS-CHAP v2
>should be disabled in many cases to login successfully. To do so, open
>up the dial-up icon, choose Properties and under the Security tab,
>instead of using the default security, choose Advanced and click the
>settings button. Remove the check from both CHAP checkboxes and OK all
>the way back out.
>
>We have run into weird problems at times when dialing into a straight
>UNIX box when either options were enabled. Providers like Worldcom/UUNet
>require those settings to be off no matter what to connect and
>authenticate properly.
>
>You don't have to worry about that under Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 95/98

Not true for NT4.  You must check "plaintext passwords" or some such under
NT4.  You only don't have to worry about it under Win95/98

Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com



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