Getting Dial-Up Network to login correctly

[Peter Davis]

I've been trying to use Dial-Up Network on our PPP system here, but
without success. The software dials up, and then says "Verifying
userid and password." It then says "Disconnecting" and that's it.

My question is: What is verifying the the user id and password? I've
got a script file set up to do that, and without the script, how could
the DUN software recognize the remote system's prompts?

I gather that DUN is trying to using some userid/password protocol,
but I'd rather it just let the script I created to the logging in.

Is there a way to get DUN to run the script as soon as it connects,
without trying to log in itself?

Thanks
-pd

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[Scott Willsey]

pda...@copernicus.bbn.com (Peter Davis) wrote:

>I've been trying to use Dial-Up Network on our PPP system here, but
>without success. The software dials up, and then says "Verifying
>userid and password." It then says "Disconnecting" and that's it.

>My question is: What is verifying the the user id and password? I've
>got a script file set up to do that, and without the script, how could
>the DUN software recognize the remote system's prompts?

>I gather that DUN is trying to using some userid/password protocol,
>but I'd rather it just let the script I created to the logging in.

>Is there a way to get DUN to run the script as soon as it connects,
>without trying to log in itself?

Your problem may be that the script is not quite what the server you
are trying to connect to wants. The user id and password it will use
are what you enter in the connection box when you double click on the
icon for your dial-up connection to that internet server. For
example, let's say you a new connection under dial-up networking.
Then when you double-click on it, it comes up with a window that has
(among other things) a space for a username and a password. You need
to enter those, make sure that "save password" is enabled. Your
script will use these values (i'm assuming microsoft's dscript here).

I had the same thing happen to me until I realized that my isp was
waiting for something. If I did it manually through the terminal
window, it would accept the username, password, then I would get
garbage as it tried to go to ppp establishment. At this point, you
hit f7 or continue. I thought about it, added an extra carriage
return at the end of my script, and now all is well.

Hope this helps.

Scott

........scottie@teleport.com........

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[Jeremy Bennett]

In article <450h93$h...@maureen.teleport.com>, sco...@teleport.com says...

Also, you might consider Netcom looks for a # symbol for the user name..
I have to enter #timbow instead of just timbow to go through dial-up.
Your service may have a similar quirk.
Jeremy
tim...@ix.netcom.com