I seem to be batting zero. So I'll take a break. And come back to it. Adding noauth from kppp or internet dialer as described below just got me a 'ppp daemon died unexpectedly' message and the details box said that noauth is only available to root. removing noauth from the kppp setup (I edited /etc/ppp/options with 'noauth') gets me a connecting to network message...but it ain't so! I don't get any error messages but there is no connection. the browsers just say 'can't find the url'. lynx however says there is no connection. When I type pon highstream.net the modem dials up (as it does with kppp and wvdial) then it just sits there. No messages. when I type poff the terminal message is no pppd running and none stopped.
Quoting cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:52, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Sat Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to > > > authenticate itself Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: but I couldn't > > > find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. Sep 26 > > > 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: (None of the available passwords would let > it > > > use an IP address.) > > > > > > I went to kde/kppp site and read there that commenting out the > > > 'auth' line in /etc/ppp/otions could be a fix but it wasn't. So I > copied > > > the /etc/ppp/options file from my SuSE distro but that didn't work > > > either. > > > > Add following line to /etc/ppp/options: > > > > noauth > > > > So long > > Thomas > > Or alternatively, after bringing up Kppp, go > > Setup -> [select account] -> Edit -> Customise pppd -> [type in ] noauth > -> > Add > > I've just had to do that, half an hour ago, and it works. > > (I just did a complete reinstall of Woody, for various reasons). > > Curiously though, /etc/ppp/options still has 'auth' in it, while > /etc/ppp/peers/provider has 'noauth' (and already did, I think, even > when > I was having that 'drop-out' problem mentioned above). I don't know how > the > two inter-relate, but evidently what I did in Kppp has changed something > else > somewhere. I was intending to ask for some clarification on this list. > > Other question - what's the 'proper' way to give a user (me) access to ppp? > > I can think of a couple of ways that might work but I might as well do it > the > 'proper' way. I don't need high security (being the only user) but I'm > sure > I shouldn't be posting as root ;) > > cr > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Protect your PC from local E-Mail Application security holes*** ***Maintain your Privacy - MS Passport Free*** ***Anti SPAM "Whitelist" feature*** http://www.x-mail.net Web Based E-Mail, accessible anywhere Voice Messages, Voice Calls (VoIP), Video Conferencing, Live Chat, X-Mail Messenger, Personal Web Hosting, 128 bit SSL Secure, Calendar, Bookmarks, Forwarding, Virtual Mail Map Aliasing X-Mail Premium: 20MB Messages, 100MB Storage, SMTP, POP3, Ad Free ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous Web Surfing http://www.snoopblocker.com Search http://www.teradex.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
