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Date:      Sat, 3 Aug 1996 01:40:13 +0930 (CST)
From:      Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au>
To:        lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Software and Dial-Up Networking
Message-ID:  <199608021610.BAA01329@al.imforei.apana.org.au>

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In article <199608021527.AA284379666@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> you wrote:
: In his e-mail Gunter Loos wrote:
: > At 13:22 1/08/96 -0400, you wrote:
: > >
: > >Also, I have a lot of users logging in with Dial-up networking, and 
: > >currently we have to have them bring up a terminal window after dialing 
: > >so they can login manually and then hit F7 to continue.  Anyone know how 
: > >to change it so they don't have to do that?  (I am not sure of the 
: > >protocol that Windows uses to verify the user, PAP/CHAP?)  How would I go 
: > >about doing this, w/o loosing access for our shell users?
: > Well, using mgetty's latest version does the trick; if you don't
: > want to loose this way of connecting, that is. It can differentiate between
: > a normal login (with login:), a fax  or even an attempt to use LCP (first thing
: > ppp does). As far as I know, Windows uses PAP.

: On the other hand, you can always write a chat script for Win95.  I assume
: the others have similar capabilities.

 You could also go the other extreme and have totally seemless connectivity
 for the win95 clients... the user level ppp code needs a few hacks to
 negotiate netbios and DNS nameservers but they aren't too difficult.  We
 also rewrote ours to use the passwd file for authentication with PAP rather
 than the ppp.secrets file.

 Another neat thing is setting up a samba server, so that your win95 clients
 can just open up dialup networking, open up some "setup" site you have,
 and grab all the basic internet client software and/or documentation.

 To see in action its quite neat, just get one PC + win95 + add phone
 number then dialup, open network neighbourhood -> setup site, and
 "copy" down whatever is required (ie a web browser)

 One stop shop!

 Peter

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