Re: VPN no longer works after samba upgrade

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Phillip Davis wrote:

> I guess what confuses me is how Samba has anything to do whatsoever with
> pptp or ppp. They should be totally unrelated no?  Pptp/ppp are a
> communication link and samba is a file sharing protocol.  Pptp can be
> established and samba never used. The errors seem to be all about
> establishing a pptp connection and nothing to do with samba sharing.
> Unless pptp is sharing samba's auto mechanism?

I think you mean "auth mechanism". And the answer is yes. PPTP encryption
(MPPE) depends on MS-CHAPv2, which depends on server having passwords
hashed in NT format. Samba does this.

http://www.schneier.com/paper-pptpv2.html
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-pppext-mschapv2-keys

> 
> ~Phil
> 
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:07 AM, "Jorge Bastos" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >> - Kernel version: 2.6.28 (Gentoo Linux 2.6.28-hardened-r9)
> >> - POPTOP version: 1.3.4
> >> - PPP version: 2.4.4 (r25)
> >> 
> >> In the meantime I found this thread on a Samba bug which could be
> >> related to the problem I have:
> >> 
> >> http://samba.2283325.n4.nabble.com/winbind-and-pptpd-authentication-
> >> failure-td2532691.html
> >> 
> >> This thread referes to the following bug:
> >> 
> >> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7568
> >> 
> >> I am at present installing Samba 3.5.6 which includes the referred fix.
> >> I will let you know the results.
> > 
> > Ah,
> > You're using NTLM ?
> > Forgot to ask that part.
> > 
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A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
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