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

[Patrick Reid]

You can set the domain which your VPN connection attempts to use by editing
the registry.

All standard regedit warnings apply here - do this at your own risk, don't
screw around if you don't know what you are doing, and make sure you back up
your registry before editing it. This is for Windows 98:

run regedit, and go to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\RemoteAccess\Profile\ReidWorld VPN

Except for your machine "ReidWorld VPN" will be whatever you named the DUN
connection which links you to you VPN.

There will be a "Domain" entry in this key - in your case it will have a
single space as the Data for the "Domain" value. (Possibly it will be
absent - I've never seen that sort of name for the Domain). Change it to
whatever you want your domain name to be - if you are running SAMBA or a
Windows SMB network, you will probably want to use the name of your
workgroup or domain.

You will have to make sure your chap-secrets file is consistent with this
new domain name.

Patrick Reid - mailto:PReid at candesco.com
Candesco Research Corp.
Communication Centre: <http://www.mirabilis.com/1052176>


-----Original Message-----
From: pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org
[mailto:pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org]On Behalf Of Nico De Ranter
Sent: February 4, 2000 10:59 AM
To: pascal.fremaux at sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr
Cc: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
Subject: Re: [pptp-server] Win 98 second edition won't connect


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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