Re: Gnome PPP dial-up problems

[Cody Russell <bratsche dfw net>]

No it doesn't. I'm not familiar enough with the inner workings of
gnome-ppp yet, or else I would fix this, but gnome-ppp requires that
/sbin/pppd be setuid. Your /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file must also be
configured the way I described in order to use gnome-ppp. If kppp is
working fine for you, there may not be much reason to switch. But if you
do want to switch, try that and let me know if it doesn't work.

Cody

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Jonathan wrote:

> Well I tried installing rp3 but it led me on an unending list of failed
> dependencies. Everytime I'd try to install or update the appropriat rpm I'd
> get more I'd have to do. It finally came down to needing an updated lib for
> the updated timeconfig, for the updated initscripts and it complained about
> the fact that the old lib was needed by stuff and the new lib conflicted with
> the old. I've no idea how I'm supposed to go on from there, so for now I'm
> still using kppp.
> The fact that I can use kppp suggests that my pppd and modem access is ok.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> Cody Russell wrote:
> 
> > If you're using Red Hat Linux, you might check out Red Hat's PPP dialer,
> > rp3. It's a little more polished than gnome-ppp.
> >
> > Otherwise, you can still get gnome-ppp working. You need to check and see
> > if you have a file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets setup. It should contain a line
> > such as:
> >
> > username        remote  password
> >
> > The remote tag can be any identifier you want. It must correspond to the
> > "Remote Name" entry in gnome-ppp's properties.
> >
> > Then chmod u+s /sbin/pppd and make sure you have proper access to your
> > modem device. I think that should work. If not, let me know what
> > /var/log/messages says.
> >
> > Cody Russell
> >
> > On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Jonathan wrote:
> >
> > > I'd like to wean myself away from as many kde apps as possible, but
> > > I find I have to use kppp because the Gnome PPP utility dies as soon as
> > > I try to dial. I get everything configured and then press connect and
> > > I get a crashing sound and an error message. Any ideas what could be
> > > causing this.
> > >
> > > Also, While I use Netscape Mail for most of my email, since it only
> > > allows one POP mail account, I have to use another utility here agin
> > > kmail seems to fit the bill best, except when I want to click on link
> > > and it brings up all the kde icons. I'd like to use Balsa, but that
> > > doens't seem to be able to send via SMTP. It looks like the option is
> > > there, but I cannot choose it. Is this just not usable yet?
> > >
> > > Jonathan
> > >
> > > PS I had thought that I needed to use the kde CD player, but just now
> > > the Gnome CD player worked and in fact brought up the CDDB info that the
> > > kde player seemed unable to.
> > >
> > >
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