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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: mrl on February 02, 2009, 05:21:53 PM

Title: SME cannot authenticate: failed to read ppp interface status
Post by: mrl on February 02, 2009, 05:21:53 PM
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
Title: Re: SME cannot authenticate: failed to read ppp interface status
Post by: David Harper on February 04, 2009, 12:53:00 AM
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