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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Connect To FreeBSD from Internet Explorer 3.0 ?
Date: 13 Oct 1996 15:06:26 GMT
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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<325E7B4C.6456@www.play-hookey.com>
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In article <325E7B4C.6456@www.play-hookey.com>,
Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes:
> dave dyer wrote:
>> Occasionally, FreeBSD reports 3 or 4
>> failed
>> login attempts (sometimes it does not report this). I'm lost, does anyone
>> have
>> any ideas on this.
>
> You have me *very* confused. IE is M$'s Web browser; I was not aware
> that it would perform a dial-up PPP login, and would not have expected
> it to do so. The dialing and session setup should be done by the TCP/IP
> stack handler, not by an individual application.
You're right, but IE probably allows you to click on "network properties"
and puts you into the system dial-up network config stuff.
There are lots of W95 scripting tools around (although I'm no expert).
Use one of them so that you can see your login session - or avoid them
altogether and use the "terminal before connect" bit of W95 to get your
login script working.
Either way, this isn't really a FreeBSD topic (yet).
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....