Re: VPN no longer works after samba upgrade

Phillip Davis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.poptop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ok. Must be a config option I've never needed. My pptp server uses /etc/ppp/chap-secrets if I recall. Or something like that.  Also auth was auto corrected by the iPad heh.  

~Phil

On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Charlie Brady <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 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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