[pptp-server] Win 98 second edition won't connect

[Nico De Ranter]

Ah got it, just put everything between '"' in chap-secrets:

e.g.  " \\testuser"  server blabla *

Now it works,

Thanks.

Nico

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Nico De Ranter wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Pascal Fremaux wrote:
> 
> > Search in the old mails, you're the ...th to have this problem.
> > I repeat:
> > - DUN40.exe cannot be installed on a W98SE. It's for W98.
> > - W98SE have some bug with the VPN install(install/desinstall only from the Windows setup box in Windows paramters and NEVER from the
> > networks services. So desinstall and reinstall from this box.
> > 
> > Hope it resolve your problem.
> 
> Hmmm, actualy it didn't. I desinstalled VPN through the Windows setup box, rebooted
> reinstalled through the WSB, rebooted, tried to connected... and got the same
> error. But this time in stead of seeing Workgroup\\testuser on my server I say
> just \\testuser which doesn't work either. I tried putting \\testuser in the
> chap-secrets file but that doesn't help :-( (I'm guessing there might be a " "
> in front of the \\). Recompiling poptop with the patch to strip out everything in
> front of \\ isn't really an option since the server is in production so I can't just
> start playing around with it :-(.  Any other options? (I haven't found anything
> usefull in the archives yet, but then again it's rather hard to search them :-( )
> 
> Nico
> 
> > 
> > Nico De Ranter wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to connect to my poptop server from a brand new
> > > portable with Win98 Second Edition installed. However I'm constantly
> > > denied access.  When I do the same thing from another slightly older
> > > portable with Win98 (not SE) everything works fine.  I tried to install
> > > dun40.exe (which I believe is installed on the other portable) but the
> > > installation program refuses to install on Win98SE.
> > >
> > 
> > --
> >  Pascal Fremaux, SSII Alten
> >  Study Engineer at Alcatel Telecom
> >  R&D, Illkirch, France
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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 "It has been said that there are only two businesses
  refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and
               the computer industry." 
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Nico De Ranter
Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/DME-B)
Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne)
1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth
Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86
e-mail: nico.deranter at sonycom.com