[pptp-server] No logs, no connections, just error 629

[Pascal Fremaux]

Might be a login error.
See your /var/log/message file:
[cat /var/log/message | grep pppd | grep authenticating]
you should see a line of the shape:
Jan 20 11:22:04 ill000018218x pppd[5420]: No CHAP secret found for
authenticating pf
or
Jan 20 11:22:04 ill000018218x pppd[5420]: No CHAP secret found for
authenticating DOMAINNAME\\pf
(pf is your user)
If this is the last case, you have to replace in your chap-secret file the
line
pf     *    secret    *
by the line
DOMAINNAME\\pf     *    secret    *

Andrew McMillan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I must be doing something really basic wrong, but I can't get to first
> base!
>
> I have installed pptpd using the Debian package from potato but when I
> try to connect from a Windows98 box on our LAN I get Error 629: You have
> been disconnected from the computer you dialled.
>
> I have looked at the connection with tcpdump and I get 6 packets flowing
> back and forth between the two machines in the 'instant' that it takes
> for the error 629 to come up.  If I stop pptpd it takes much longer for
> that same error 629 to come up than if I have it running.
>
> I have built kernels, with GRE, PPP and every other option I can see
> that should be reasonable.  I have applied patches for mppe and rebuilt
> ppp.  I have tried configuration files verbatim with the examples which
> appear in the documentation and on the web pages.
>
> As far as I can see I have debugging enabled too, but I am not getting
> any messages in any log files after:
> pptpd[5939]: MGR: Manager process started
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated!
>
>   Kernel 2.2.14
>   PPP version 2.3.10
>   PoPToP version 1.0.0
>
> Regards,
>                                         Andrew McMillan.
> --

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 Pascal Fremaux, SSII Alten
 Study Engineer at Alcatel Telecom
 R&D, Illkirch, France