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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: mrl on February 02, 2009, 05:21:53 PM
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I'm trying to set up SME for a dial up sever the private gate way option.
I'm new to SME, and not a linux head, yet not an airhead either. The provider does not support linux. However, their setup under Windows is simple. Flow control XON/XOFF, no modem compression. Everything else seems to be automated. Simple stuff. Here's what the SME log says at the end just before and after it hangs up.
Jan 30 13:11:30 mrl1 pppd[4488]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Jan 30 13:11:30 mrl1 pppd[4488]: Connection terminated.
Jan 30 13:11:30 mrl1 diald[3652]: failed to read ppp interface status: No such device
Jan 30 13:11:30 mrl1 pppd[4488]: Modem hangup
Jan 30 13:11:30 mrl1 pppd[4488]: Exit.
Also, after SME boots it dials out automatically. Is this right?
It will not dial up when I click on a link on my desktop (Firefox browser v 3.1). My network connection to the server seems good. My network finds it. I'm Running Ubuntu for a desk top. I can hook into the SME administrator panel on my Ubuntu desktop using the browser on my PC. This works well.
I put special modem strings to disable the modem compression as well as a modem string to set the handshake mode to XON/XOFF. the strings were: &K0 &K2 This was in the Modem Initialization Panel on the SME server setup.
The modem is a USR V.92 external RS 232 interface.
By the way, I cannot dial up under Ubuntu either. I've tried Kppp and Gnome ppp. Neither of them works no matter what I do within their control panels. It just says Failed to Authenticate... or something like that. I've tried ... God knows I've tried.
I can dial out under Windows XP.
The question is, what is so special about a Windows dial up ppp vis-a-vis a linux dial up ppp? Does windows put some sort of character string in their ppp transmission so that the server at the other end knows it's a Windows ppp connection that is logging in?
I'm starting to get suspicious.
HELLLLLLLLLLP!
Mike
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Welcome to the SME Server forums :)
The proper place to report issues like this is the bug tracker (http://bugs.contribs.org/). Please create a new bug so that this problem can be investigated, and also post the bug link in this thread for future reference.
Thanks