From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 19 1: 3:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F3431556A for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 01:03:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA89716; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 09:03:17 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA00861; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:00:49 GMT (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199903190800.IAA00861@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jerry Bell Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP strangeness with Windows In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:33:52 EST." <36F1B790.9D5E7FFE@bellnetworks.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:00:49 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a few dial in modems set up on a freebsd box. Windows clients > dial in through dial-up networking to connect to the network. This all > worked very well until I lost the hard drive and had to restore it. Now > Windows dial-up networking cannot connect by itself. The > username/password handshake is screwed up. As an example, when a user > dials in with dialup networking trying to authenticate, the following > shows up on ps -x: > > 14259 pil I > This EXACT situation happens on many different windows clients (95, 98, > NT, etc). Even the mungled username in the ps -x list is the same. > This happens on three different types of modems in the Freebsd box. > Here's the really weird part: if I have dial-up networking open a window > after connection, the "login:" prompt comes up without incident, and the > user can authenticate. Any ideas on how to fix this? Either add a pp= capability to gettytab or attach login scripts to your Windows setups. You're simply firing ppp data at a login prompt that doesn't know what to do with it. > Thanks, > > Jerry Bell > jerry@bellnetworks.net -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message