Re: WinNT 4.0 Dial-up

Edward S. Marshall (emarshal@common.net)
Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:01:47 -0600 (CST)

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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Michael C. Brenner wrote:
> I just had my first run-in with NT 4.0 dial-up. It seems that the default
> LCP sequence has some oddities:

[...]

> which causes authentication failure! There appear to be two workarounds:
> 1) Clear the DOMAIN field of the dial-up networking dialog

Check your NT4 documentation...the domain field is NOT a DNS domain; they
are very specific about you not filling that in.

> 2) Choose the "script" tab and run the "generic login" script. (The
> generic script uses the "ogin:" and "assword:" trick instead of PAP.

I was surprised by this myself; I dialed in with our NT system, and it
allowed me to log in normally as long as I either ran a script at some
point, or brought up a terminal window.

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