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Title: VPN won't work
Post by: ronald1969 on February 16, 2005, 08:48:50 PM

Hello there.

I'm trying to make a VPN connection to a sme 6.0 via pptp but it won't work.

The error message I get is:
The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so.

I also get the message INIT: Id "pptp" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

What is going wrong?

Ronald

Title: VPN won't work
Post by: Damian on February 17, 2005, 08:13:39 PM

Hi Ronald

does your SME's /etc/inittab file contain a pptp entry which says EXACTLY:

pptp:357:respawn:/usr/sbin/pptpd -f

Also, have you done anything different to the pptp installation ?

What version of windows are you trying to connect with ? Have you updated the Dial-up-networking to DUN 1.4 if using Win98 ?

Damian

Title: VPN won't work
Post by: ronald1969 on February 17, 2005, 10:40:22 PM

Ok I checked the file which seemed to be correct.

Then I updated DUN to 1.4 and now my VPN connection seems to be working.

I will start working with VPN to get some experience.

So thanks for your responce.

Ronald

Title: VPN won't work
Post by: Damian on February 17, 2005, 10:52:34 PM

You're welcome
Damian