[pptp-server] PPTP, and windows PDCs

[Steve Host]

Actually, I have a solution to this problem:

Assuming you have the following:

[ remote user ] ----- ( internet ) --- (Poptop server/gateway) --- PDC

Say PDC is 192.168.1.5, and [remote user] correctly gets into your LAN with
address 192.168.2.10

One solution is to explicitly define the PDC's location in your lmhosts file
on Windows based clients. You set it up similar to the following:

192.168.1.5 PDC   #PRE    #DOM:DOMAIN
192.168.1.5 "DOMAIN        \0x1b" #PRE

PDC is the name of your Primary Domain Controller
DOMAIN is the name of your NT domain

Be careful, the number of charachters including spaces between the quotes in
Line 2 is very sensitive. Here are two links that will explain this in more
detail:

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBF/TIP2900/rh2988.htm

Similarly, Q262655 on Microsoft's knowledge base.

I've had this working with remote login scripts, seems to work with no
problems thus far.

Hope this is helpful for you

- Steve



----- Original Message -----
From: "Hellings, Ross" <rhelling at bechtel.com>
To: <pptp-server at lists.schulte.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 1:40 AM
Subject: [pptp-server] PPTP, and windows PDCs


> Does anybody know how to make PPTP get its usernames and password from a
NT
> server, eg. win2000 PDC, or from a windows domain.  The network that we
want
> to implement this on is a purely NT network (disgusting), and we dont
really
> want to have to add individually users for access to PPTP, and change
there
> passwords all the time, we need the synchronization in the entire domain
> (containing over 50,000 users), and we want all users to be able to use
> PPTP.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ross
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hellings, Ross" <rhelling at bechtel.com>
To: <pptp-server at lists.schulte.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 1:40 AM
Subject: [pptp-server] PPTP, and windows PDCs


> Does anybody know how to make PPTP get its usernames and password from a
NT
> server, eg. win2000 PDC, or from a windows domain.  The network that we
want
> to implement this on is a purely NT network (disgusting), and we dont
really
> want to have to add individually users for access to PPTP, and change
there
> passwords all the time, we need the synchronization in the entire domain
> (containing over 50,000 users), and we want all users to be able to use
> PPTP.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ross
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