Portmasters / Windows NT 4.0 RAS / digiboards ???

Mark Femal (tech-mf@athenet.net)
Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:03:45 -0600 (CST)

Please reply directly to me and not the list!! I'm not on the
portmaster-users list since I can only handle so much email traffic
everyday :o/

Is anyone on this list by chance using RAS to authenticate user logins
for anything? I am trying to set RAS up so that I can give remote access
to our Microsloth network. On the client side, I'd like to be using the
Windows 95 dialer (with appropriate protocols enabled) and on the server
side I've been trying to get an internal USR sportster 28.8 to validate
logins. I've STFW and couldn't find anything helpful. Our situation is
like this:

We use Livingston Portmasters (2e) for all of our dial-ins which authenticate
PPP using RADIUS. All of our internet servers are running Solaris 2.5.
All of our in-house activities are done on Windows 95 machines with
file/programs coming from several Windows NT servers. The
only protocol enabled on the portmasters is TCP/IP. Is it possible to
simply enable netBEUI on the client (and NT server) and have the
appropriate lmhosts.sam file to route across this TCP/IP link? Anyone
happen to have a sample configuration that works?

Another possible solution I am looking at is allocating some old equipment
(a digiboard 16/e) to throw in one of the NT servers and use RAS.
Anyone else happen to have configured something similiar? I can't
even get RAS to authenticate with the internal sportster with a windows 95
client using just tcp/ip.

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