Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steven T. Hatton)]

Ingvaldur,

Here ya go.  RTFM and let me know what it says ;-)  My German is not
great.  I believe this has the answer to your question.  I will try to read
it and see if it answers my question.  I will also try to find its
counterpart auf Englisch.

Steve

file:/usr/doc/packages/ppp_nt/PPP-NT-HOWTO.html

Dieses Dokument beschreibt, wie man eine PPP-Verbindung zwischen einem
LINUX-Host als Client und einem Windows NT Server unter Verwendung der
PAP/CHAP Authentifizierung mit automatischem Rueckruf durch den Windows NT
Server herstellt .

Ingvaldur Th. Sigurjonsson wrote:

> Hi Steven,
>
> Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> >
> > Ingvaldur,
> >
> > Did you get this working?  I am interested in your problem.  I am up
> > well past my bed time, so I can't do much research on NT's RAS right
> > now.
> No, I did not. But I'm gonna spend some time investigating in this. I
> think getting the source for the NT RAS Router and NT RAS Dialer would
> be the best thing but then I would have to sue Microsoft and that would
> take several years.
>
> There are several protocols in action when the connection is made,
> amongst others: IPCP, LCP, PAP, CCP. It would be nice to know where.
>
> Maybe I install the sniffer program which comes with the NT SMS package.
> That sniffer shows everything on a NT Network, and that is one reason
> why it's totally forbidden within Microsoft (at least on the corporate
> network). Some guy's here at MS Sweden installed the sniffer here , and
> in a short time a call came from the US HQ, and they where told they
> were doing something illegal. The sniffer was instantly shut down and
> removed.
>
> > I sent this to my boss who is a die-hard NT fan.  His respones
> > was "tell the little twit to RTFM."  Well my opinion is, we are better
> > than that here.  So let's see if we can get this thing working.
> You can tell you little boss (NT sucker... etc. ;) that it isn't in the
> manuals, neither is it in the Resource Kit for NT [Workstation|Server]
> Thats the way it usually is from M$. Ask you tiny little boss if
> he(she!) knows of any undocumentet functions in the Win32 API, or in
> MFC...
>
> Please inform me if you make any progress on this.
>
> regards
> - Ingvaldur
>
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Ingvaldur Th. Sigurjonsson wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a NT RAS Server at work with callback enabled. So when I
> > > make a
> > > connection to my work with my NT Workstation, the NT RAS server
> > > recognises me and gives me an oppurtunity to be called back (yes I
> > > can
> > > enter any phone number I want, default is my home). And then the
> > > line is
> > > hung up and the RAS Server calls my NT where the RAS Dialer is
> > > waiting
> > > for a call.
> > >
> > > I would love to have the same functionality for my Linux box. Has
> > > anyone
> > > made that kind of configuration.
> > >
> > > I know that my RAS Server is using PPP and that it does not prompt
> > > for
> > > login/password.
> > >
> > > I do not know how the RAS client and RAS Server agree's that a
> > > callback
> > > should be made, maybe in the LCP, maybe something else, please tell
> > > me.
> > >
> > > The RAS Server allows authentication in clear text. I dont know if
> > > that
> > > means that the RAS Server uses MS CHAP / PAP authentication, please
> > > inform me about that one to.
> > >
> > > I have Suse 5.2, Kernel 2.0.34, PPPD 2.3 patch 5 (without MS CHAP
> > > enabled). I used KPPP (from KDE 1.0) to call into the RAS Server
> > > with
> > > PAP authentication, but no callback. There is a mgetty for the modem
> > > (I
> > > think).
> > >
> > > Telephone bills will pile up If I dont get this callback working.
> > > The
> > > alterntiv is to stick with my NT Workstation as my primary
> > > workstation
> > > but then I'll miss all the fun...
> > >
> > > Please advise.
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > > - Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson
> > > Sweden
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