From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 16:39:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA23849 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 16:39:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA23844 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 16:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harlie (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.2]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA01380; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 16:40:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 16:39:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" X-Sender: ejs@harlie To: tim@print.gfmurray.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win95 dialup In-Reply-To: <199608261739.KAA10445@print.gfmurray.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 26 Aug 1996 tim@print.gfmurray.com wrote: > >> If we then set up Dial-Up Networking > >> on Win95 so that it does not give us the dialog box, the system (Win95) > >> waits for a long time and finally says that it could not make a > >> connection. What is the problem? Thanks. > >I think the problem is that it needs a script containing the username > >and password. There's something called a dial-up scripting tool that > >comes on the cdrom version of Win95 and may be downloadable from > >Microsoft's web page. > I have set up several FBSD systems for W95, WFW, & Mac dial up. It seems > to me that the easiest way is to use slip. If you want more details on > scripts, how to configure W95 etc, just give me a shout. > Tim Baird For Win95, the simplest solution I've found is to compile a kernel with ppp, then run pppd on that line (from /etc/ttys), configured for chap login. Of course, this doesn't work if you've got any callers that need a login prompt.