[pptp-server] Yes, blank username/password works!

[Cowles, Steve]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dread Boy [mailto:dreadboy at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 1:37 AM
> To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org; vgill at technologist.com
> Subject: RE: [pptp-server] Yes, blank username/password works!
> 
> 
> Yeah, and on top of all this it doesn't seem to matter what I 
> log in as, my username and password don't get carried over to
> SAMBA for authenticating with server shares.

Lets make sure we are comparing apples to apples here. The username/password
that you specify in your windows PPTP dialup profile has NEVER been carried
over for share access. Please keep the following in mind...

1) The PPTP tunnel uses the user/pass specified in your PPTP dialup profile
to authenticate the tunnel connection ONLY.

2) Share access uses the user/pass that you specified when you turned on
your PC and logged in to get to your desktop. FWIW: This same user/pass can
be specified in your PPTP dialup profile to be used to authenticate the PPTP
tunnel. 

> 
> i.e.  Whether I use a valid username/password or the blank, I 
> still can not access resources (or possibly ACLs) on the
> servers even with valid usernames.  On my local LAN it's no
> problem, but remotely, it doesn't seem to know who I am while
> I'm logged on.
> 
> For example, when I click a share locally on my SAMBA server, 
> I can get into it and have certain rights based on my username/
> password.  I don't even have to think about it. "security =
> user" in /etc/smb.conf. However, when I log in remotely with
> Windoze using my PPTPD Linux server, when I even try to access
> the server itself (let alone the share) it keeps asking me for
> the IPC$ administration password as if it was an NT server.
> It doesn't matter what I enter here, I can't get any farther.