Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 20:39:19 -0700 From: Riley McIntire <rjmcintire@earthlink.net> To: "'Steve Reid'" <steve@edmweb.com> Cc: "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: ijppp and ppp.secret for PAP Message-ID: <01BBBA0F.C6D5D980@emilyd.moviebiz.com>
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Concerning the disabled password checkbox with the Microsoft dialer: There's a couple things to do, sometimes one works, other times the other. I usually do both at the same time: In the Windows directory, delete all *.pwl files. In the Network section of Control Panel, choose the Primary Windows Logon to be "Client for Microsoft Networks"--If it's already set to that, change it to "Windows Logon". Reboot. The Remember Password option should be available. Enter your password, select the checkbox, and connect. Make sure you get a connection. Afterwards you can change the logon in the Network section to what you like. Note that you'll have to reenter all cached passwords. Hope this helps, Riley ---------- From: Steve Reid[SMTP:steve@edmweb.com] Sent: Sunday, October 13, 1996 2:30 PM To: Barney Wolff Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ijppp and ppp.secret for PAP > > One thing I have noticed is that the Microsoft dialer (the one that comes > > with Windows95 and the Win3.1 version of Internet Exploter) won't allow > > passwords longer than 8 characters. Well, it'll allow them, but they won't > > work. It took me a while to figure that one out. :-/ > > This is simply not true, by personal experience with the Win95 dialer. Hmm... When I first tried setting up a win95 machine to access our PPP server, I had a password a bit longer than 8 characters and it didn't work. I tried everything I could think of but it didn't work until I changed the password to something short. Since everyone else seems to have no problem with long passwords, I can only guess that maybe I had trailing whitespace in the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. I've been using <8 char passwords ever since, and haven't seem the problem. *shrug* So am I also the only person who can't get the "save password" checkbox to work under Windows 95? The option is there but it isn't lit up and so it can't be selected. ===================================================================== | Steve Reid - SysAdmin & Pres, EDM Web (http://www.edmweb.com/) | | Email: steve@edmweb.com Home Page: http://www.edmweb.com/steve/ | | PGP (2048/9F317269) Fingerprint: 11C89D1CD67287E68C09EC52443F8830 | | -- Disclaimer: JMHO, YMMV, TANSTAAFL, IANAL. -- | ===================================================================:)
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