Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 07:58:32 -0700 From: "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD and NT rass Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970606075832.00ac1e50@visigenic.com>
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At 07:09 AM 6/6/97 -0400, you wrote: >NT does not work like a UNIX PPP server, and unless >you are running the NT server (I assume your ISP runs it) >you probably will not get to connect like you expect. NT's >remote access server uses a Microsoft flavor of PPP that >is designed to shelter the fragile folks who use Windows >95 and 3.11 from gory things like a login prompt on a black >screen. They just call in and connect, and their logins are >in the dialog boxes in windows, which is then passed via >the abstraction layers to and through the OS and hardware. >Trying to get a login prompt from an NT system by just >calling via modem on a terminal screen will not work. I have >not heard of anything that lets one do this from UNIX to NT, >only from NT or Windows to UNIX. In NT's defense you can configure RAS to prompt you in one of several different ways, a plain login console being one of them. -Tim
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