Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:00:49 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Jerry Bell <jerry@bellnetworks.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP strangeness with Windows Message-ID: <199903190800.IAA00861@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:33:52 EST." <36F1B790.9D5E7FFE@bellnetworks.net>
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> 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<s+ 0:00.07 login -p }#@!}!}!} }7}"}&
>
> 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
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