Unfortunately, I do need
to go to MS Windows, whenever I need to establish, from home, a VPN connection to my work's network. (I have already tried pptp client, under Linux, but with no luck.)
Paul, if this is why you are trying to get into Windows, I may be able to help. I have figured out to get Mandrake to VPN into a Microsoft VPN Server, which my employer also uses. Under 9.2 this was trivial. Under 10.0, Mandrake screwed up the packaging. They changed the kernel PPP and MPPE components to those needed by PPP 2.4.2, which is good, but then they included PPP 2.4.1, which is not compatible. If you'd like to get this working, I'd be willing to assist. You'll need to download PPP 2.4.2 and the corresponding PPTP from the pptpclient site. Hopefully you are not running AMD64 (as I am) as that gets even more involved due to a bug in the PPP code that needs to be fixed in both the kernel and in PPP.
You are very kind, Guy. Thanks. In fact, pptp client works for me up to a certain point: there is problem with the authentication of my username. From the debug:
sent [CHAP Response id=0x0 <9583b7807730dda2bd09ead7f8cb946e000000000000000051f6dd93f4cdfa9ba20b77a91461689ff0cda01c60fcd5bc00>, name = "unl\"\\\"psmith"] rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x3 "9\"\003\37777777615\000<\37777777715t\000\000\003\37777777642"] LCP terminated by peer (9"^CM-^M^@<[EMAIL PROTECTED]@^CM-")
My username is unl\psmith (and yes, the slash belongs to my username).
Paul
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