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From: "Thumper!" <thumper@vfr.interceptor.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: HELP! PPP Problem
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 03:08:48 -0700
Organization: Interceptor Systems
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Mike <mike@cardnet.net> wrote:
> > My system is a UNIX Box running BSDI 2.1
> >
> > The question is that my users that have Windows95, Shiva, MacPPP etc. are
> > unable to use
> > the automated LogIn from their particular DailIn application. The only way
> > that they are
> > able to get a PPP connection is using the TTY window option. Which means
> > login all over
> > again with their Login name & Password...WHY? And with the MacPPP no PPP
> > connection at
> > all it just hangs on password.
This is a BSDI problem. There's no solution that I am aware of at this time;
if someone has figured out a magic incantation that fixes this (thus allowing
Win95 users to dialin and not have to open a tty window to enter userid and
password) please let me know!
--
Thumper! Leporidae Extraordinhare
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