Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 10:37:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Dan Riley <daniel@vailsys.com> To: Tim Oneil <toneil@visigenic.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD and NT rass Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970606103532.21234A-100000@crocodile.vale.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970606075832.00ac1e50@visigenic.com>
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On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Tim Oneil wrote: > 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 > Has anyone been able to connect to a NT RAS server using a FreeBSD/ppp client?
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