[pptp-server] Re: Problem connecting over Dialup connection

[Nathan Meyers]

> "Martin A. Walker" wrote:
> 
> I had what sounds like the same symptoms as you, and spent a few hours
> tearing out (what's left of) my hair over it. Then on a whim I decided
> to try and be dialled up to an ISP at the same time as trying to
> connect over my LAN from my Win98 laptop to my Redhat 6.1 server
> running PoPToP. This had previously worked fine, but it wouldn't work
> when I just happened to be dialled up on the modem on my laptop at the
> same time. I thought this was suspicious so I went looking on the
> Microsoft support pages and found (the enclosed) article Q188141. When
> I duly un-installed and re-installed VPN support, it all started
> working, both locally, and over dial-up.
> 
> Hope this is of some help.


Well it helped me, and you weren't even writing about my problem :-). My
Win98 Second Edition box was crashing every time I tried to launch a
PPTP connection. An uninstall and reinstall of all the networking
components did the trick. Gotta love Windows... thanks, Martin!

Nathan