Thanks for the PPP troubleshooting tips guys. I had a few things wrong in the end, small but they all made a difference.
All newbies listen up! My biggest mistake was that I fell into the age old trap of starting to hack and scramble when things didn`t quite go my way. I tried to get it all right in one go, but in doing that changed a number of variables - ALL THE TIME. I used some of my own knowledge, some I found and tried to piece it all together without truely understanding the few BASIC steps involved. After George helped me get the Win2k box authenticated and connected, I was still not happy (because I didn`t understand). So I went through the man pages, noting every option that was used successfuly and what it did, added in a couple more useful ones and it worked first time, everytime. And greatest of all - I now understand. Thanks George and Andre for your help, Later Alan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andre Pang Sent: Friday, 23 November 2001 12:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] PPP Problems On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:09:18PM +1100, Alan Vink wrote: > The Linux machine picks up the line after I dial it using Win2k Pro, they > have a chat and eventually it seems like the linux box drops the line first > and Win2k sais Authentication error. > > Upon opening a terminal after dialing in I get the Redhat 7.2 Greeting in > plain text, requesting a logon. > I logon to the machine via the terminal, and can then manualy invoke pppd > with an alias I setup in bashrc. > I then get the "normal" ppp gobbldy gook but don`t know what to do > then?????? Something which bit a friend of mine for a few hours the other day was that he was missing a "*" in his /etc/ppp/pap-secrets (or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets) file -- so make sure you have a "*" in that file. It's pretty easy to overlook. His symptoms were exactly the same as yours: Windows appears to connect to the Linux box fine, and the icon actually shrinks to the taskbar as it would if you had a normal connection, but it drops out right after that with an authentication error. -- #ozone/algorithm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - trust.in.love.to.save -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
