Turn off the CHAP authentication and life will be MUCH simpler...
gm...
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From: ml-portmaster-users@catnap.net <ml-portmaster-users@catnap.net>
To: portmaster-users@livingston.com <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 5:51 PM
Subject: (PM) PAP+CHAP to PM3 from Win95 DUN
>I've just recently installed a PM3 which has both PAP and CHAP
>authentication enabled. If a Windows 95 user attempts to connect
>and has the "use encrypted password" option enabled (to force CHAP),
>the PM3 terminates the call with the debug message "Couldn't CHAP
>on port S0 - Not allowed". They get in fine if they disable
>the encrypted password option (i.e. use only PAP). They can
>get in with CHAP if I disable PAP on the PM3.
>
>Livingston support (ref#E103500) tells me that this is due to
>Microsoft's incorrect implementation of the PPP specs. Other
>modem servers can handle this though, so perhaps ComOS is
>just being too picky.
>
>How do other PM3 owners get around this? Do you tell Win95 users
>to not use CHAP, or do you disable PAP and force them to do CHAP?
>Neither sounds like a good solution.
>
>Chris Martin
>Catnap Consultants
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