[X4U] Dialing into Windows Server

Richard Gilmore rgilmor at uwo.ca
Tue Sep 27 07:52:17 PDT 2005


What kind of Windows server are they using? (2003 is difficult to work with)

Can you connect to the share from a Mac plugged into the network at work?
(Requires a laptop or dragging you machine to work to test)

Can you FTP to the share from home?


On 27/9/05 5:11 AM, "DZ-Jay" <dz at caribe.net> wrote:

> Hello:
> I need to dial-up into my work network.  The entire network (and IT
> support team) works only with Windows PCs.  I managed to dial-up and
> handshake the modems, but authentication fails right after that.  The
> IT manager says "Macs suck, use a PC", but I'm thinking its probably
> that I'm missing the "Log on to Network" domain part in the
> authentication, or a special encryption that I don't have.
> 
> Anybody knows how I can make my Mac connect to a Windows server via
> dial-up using PPP -- are there any specific settings I need to know, or
> additional drivers that need to be installed?
> 
> dZ.
> 
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