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Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 07:58:32 -0700
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From: "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com>
Subject: Re: BSD and NT rass
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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