Setting up the Linux PPTP 1.0.2 client (and PPP 2.3.5) with Windows NT PPTP Server
About the systems
This document assumes the following:
- remote machine name = orge
- domain remote machine belongs to = gnoll
- username on remote machine = billybob
- password for billybob = bobbybill
We want to connect our local machine to the remote machine using PPTP. The
remote machine is a Windows NT box while our local machine is a
Linux box.
PPP chap-secrets file
Find the chap-secrets file which should be in /etc/ppp/. This
file should look like this:
| # chap-secrets |
| # client | server | secret | IP adresses |
| gnoll\\billybob | orge | bobbybill | |
Setting up PPP debugging
PPP debugging is handled by syslogd. To setup debugging open
syslog.conf which should be found in /etc/ and add the following
entry:
daemon.debug /var/log/pppd.log
Launching PPTP
The following command is issued on the linux box to connect to the remote NT
machine.
pptp orge debug name gnoll\\billybob remotename orge
Errors
E=691
This error occurs when you supply an incorrect username/password to the remote
NT machine. Check the chap-secrets file and the command line where PPTP is
launched.
Testing
- run 'ifconfig' and check that a ppp0 interface exists
- find P-t-P: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx from the output of ifconfig
- run 'netstat -i' and record the RX-OK and TX-OK values for ppp0
- type 'ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'
- run 'netstat -i' again and see if the values for RX and TX increased.. if yes then it would appear to be working ok....... in theory anyway.
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