OK Jill. Let's see what we can do. I assume this is a PPP connection you are trying to make. The problem you are probably running into is that there are any number of ways to initiate PPP, and you need to find out which one your particular ISP uses. Now ... I use Debian, not Red Hat, so it is possible that your setup will differ from mine in a way that matters here. But basically, you need to stop guessing about what your ISP is sending and find out. You wrote "when the server sends a messag saying logon", but do you mean it is actually sending the prompt "logon"? Assuming no, there are two possible ways to find out what the ISP is actually sending. One, see if pppd or kpp's dialer is logging anything informative. One way is to run "grep pppd /var/log/*" to see what log pppd messages are being written to. Then read the messages you find. Same thing for kpp; do the same sort of grep. See if you find logs that capture what text the ISP is sending and you will know how to respond. Two, make a shell connection using minicom. Minicom is a teminal emulator sort of like the DOS program telix. You can use it to connect to your ISP and see what it sends. The man page for it is pretty straightforward, as I recall. Now, this all assumes that your ISP uses some sort of userid/password authentication. There are other possibilities. It may instead use PAP or CHAP to authenticate. In that case, authentication is handled by pppd itself, not te dialer. You put identifying information into (I think this is the right path) /etc/ppp/pap-secrets or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, and the dialer turns over control to pppd as soon as it detects carrier. For more details on this, including the formats of the *-secrets files, you should read the PPP HowTo (available at http://www.linuxdoc.org; may also be on your system, probably somewhere in /usr/doc). Oh, I am assuming that you replaced your actual userid and password with "username" and "password" when you posted here, but that your actual attempts use the real values for both. I don't use kpp so don't have a man page here to check, but you should verify that it treats "Expect" and "expect" as equivalents ... often, these things are case sensitive. I'm not sure what you mean by "connect" when you write: "however my machine will not connect to my work server which is NT." Do you mean dial directly into that server, or make Internet service connections to it through your ISP, or over an Ethernet, or what? At 01:51 AM 5/26/00 +0100, Jill wrote: >Hi Ray thankyou for replying to me > >The modem will initialise and dial to my ISP and will then start processing >commands, when the server sends a messag saying logon, my machine does not >send my log on name, however in the log box window it says waiting for >connect. my server returns a message saying that I have taken too long to >log on. > >I have tried changing all of the settings in the kppp client including line >termination, flow control and authentiction. I even tried turning the >connection speed down and up. > >In the script box I have tried >Expect ogin and Login >send username >expect assword and Password >send password > > >I am using redhat 6.2 with the KDE desktop environment, configuring my dial >up networking using the kpp client. > >My ISP is www.screaming.net, last i heard they were using Unix servers, >however my machine will not connect to my work server which is NT. > >The modem setup box is part of the kpp config and is set correctly as it >will dial, I have heard it dial on my phone line!. My modem does work with >Dosshell, all Windows and NT 4.0, When running in Dos I actually Boot into >dos and not run it through a window > >My dummy interface works correctly and can ping myself with ip 127.0.0.1 > > ><signature> >When replying to my mails always keep the original text . >I know this is a pain, but it will help me >remember our conversation previously ></signature.. [older stuff deleted] [ Jill -- not trimming messages is something of a burden when posting to mailing lists; the traffic gets to be too much if you don't trim judiciously. ] ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
