mgetty doesn't work with Win95 client

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Gert,

Okay, today I was able to get this working. I've RedHat Linux, I renamed
the pap-secrets file to some bogus name and ALL my problems went away...
It works great...

Great software (mgetty), lots of good work in it...

Special thanks to people responded and helped solve this problem.

-Kevin


In article <m0xdtlj-0002rUC@greenie.muc.de>,
 gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> my answer will be brief -- what does the mgetty log file (mgetty -x6)
> for an incoming Win95/PPP call show? Without this data, there is
> *NO WAY* to give any meaningful advice.
>
> It should work, yes. Why it doesn't work, I can't say, but the log file
> will show us whether it's a mgetty setup problem, or a problem with pppd
> (like "not setting the PPP/PAP passwords in /etc/ppp/papsecrets", see the
> pppd man page).
>
> gert
>
> kevinp@iname.com wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I am running a linux ppp sever and trying to use my Windows95 system to
> > connect to my linux server over telephone lines using 56K (server has a
> > NewCom 56K modems). I was able connect to linux using uugetty, this
> > worked fine except it was not automated. Upon modems connection I had to
> > login manually in a terminal window and press F7 to fire-up ppp.
> >
> > >From reading the news groups I found mgetty can automate this process, so
> > I downloaded the latest mgetty (1.1.9-Aug) and recomplied it with
> > AutoPPP option, and configured the login.config file accordingly. Now
> > here are the problems that I'm having:
> >
> > 1) I keep getting an error from INIT in the console saying: INIT:S2:
> > ERROR: respawnd: too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> >
> > 2) in syslog file says: Authentications failed for Kevin. Or some error in
> > that nature. I'm sure the password that I'm providing in W95 is
> > correct... I use this password to login manually with uugetty. AND on the
> > Windows95 side a message box says that the server did not authorize and
> > to check the password.
> >
> > 3) In the mgetty log file, there are entries saying: it could not init
> > chat or it failed, then it says, forces the init and it gets an OK.
> >
> > 4) In mgetty log file, here is a warning about it could find file
> > "modem". Is the a modem group that I've to setup? How do I do this?
> >
> > 5) Last, but not least, after I dial in the first time to the linux
> > server and mgetty picks up then fails and reports all above errors,
> > however, mgetty will not even pick up any other calls after the first
> > connect unless I reboot linux.
> >
> > ....Any ideas will be greatly appreciated... or better yet, if anyone has
> > ever gotten mgetty working on a linux server and Windows95 client running
> > ppp PLEASE respond, I really could use your help...
> >
> > Kevin
> >
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