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Dialup Service with SME?

z_darius

Dialup Service with SME?
« on: January 17, 2005, 04:26:43 PM »
Hi,
I have been using SME for sometime at home, but now I am considering using it for a business. One thing that is still under consideration is the ability of SME server to act as a PPP server. I need some of the users to be able to dialup to the SME server using their modems at home, and allow them to have Internet access, much like they do it when they buy dialup access from some ISP.

Is this possible? If yes, then could someone point me to relevant informtion.

Thank.
Darius.

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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2005, 07:51:31 PM »
Hi,

This works very well for me -- I have a bunch of salespeople dialing up to SME servers using standard windows dial-up.

To get it to work, find and install the following files on the sme..

mgetty-1.1.30-0.7.i386.rpm
e-smith-dialin-0.4-4.noarch.rpm

just do a regular rpm -ivh  command to install them and then look at the sme menu, it'll have two new menu items -- one to add modems and the other to say which users are allowed to dial into the modems.

Chris Buechler

z_darius

Dialup Service with SME?
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2005, 02:40:43 PM »
It sure sounds easy.
Thank you for your response.

whistleruk

Dialup Service with SME?
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2005, 11:26:24 AM »
Wish I could get this working  :-(
Mgetty rpm installs fine.... problem is the Dial up RPM..

[root@whislinux1 server_rpms]# rpm -Uvh e-smith-dialin-0.4-4.noarch.rpm
e-smith-dialin-0.4-4.noarch.rpm: read manifest failed: Success

No idea but no good on my SME Server 6.0.1-01.

duncan

Dialup Service with SME?
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2005, 11:41:23 AM »
Since its not an upgrade perhaps

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rpm -ivh

whistleruk

Dialup Service with SME?
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2005, 11:45:02 AM »
Quote from: "duncan"
Since its not an upgrade perhaps

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rpm -ivh


First install command I tried....
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[root@whislinux1 server_rpms]# rpm -ivh e-smith-dialin-0.4-4.noarch.rpm
e-smith-dialin-0.4-4.noarch.rpm: read manifest failed: Success


This is why I hate RPM's better sticking with source.  :-?

duncan

Dialup Service with SME?
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2005, 12:18:23 PM »
e-smith-dialin-0.4-4.noarch.rpm is not a requirement for this type of setup. It gives you a nice web page to set up the tty port etc.

You could have a look at the ppp howto and hand edit the files youself.

whistleruk

Dialup Service with SME?
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2005, 02:33:10 PM »
Quote from: "duncan"
e-smith-dialin-0.4-4.noarch.rpm is not a requirement for this type of setup. It gives you a nice web page to set up the tty port etc.

You could have a look at the ppp howto and hand edit the files youself.


Thanks for that, just interested why you get that error, not something I have came across before, forum search shows that others have had it in the past and no resolution was found.  I have not got the time to investigate further but if anyone reading this has encountered this errs and resolved it, I would be intested in your feed back

Regards.

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Dialup Service with SME?
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2005, 09:07:51 AM »
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whistleruk

Dialup Service with SME?
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2005, 10:35:49 AM »
Quote from: "RayMitchell"
What about this suggestion ?

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=6057.msg21583#msg21583


Many Thanks Ray!  :-D

I can Confirm installing the 0-4.2 RPM from here resolves the problem!
Get it from this mirror here: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/e-smith/contrib/DanielvanRaay/RPMS/noarch/

boonga-stick

Dialup Service with SME?
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2005, 11:08:43 AM »
can anyone confirm if this process works for SME server 6.0.1

I would really like to give access to dial up on this server!

Thanks again!

whistleruk

Dialup Service with SME?
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2005, 11:13:04 AM »
Quote from: "boonga-stick"
can anyone confirm if this process works for SME server 6.0.1

I would really like to give access to dial up on this server!

Thanks again!


Confirmed I'm using it :)

boonga-stick

Dialup Service with SME?
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2005, 01:29:54 PM »
well I installed it fine, which is good. :)

however just in case: how do I:

a)delete it (both mgetty and e-smith thing)
b)modify it so it doesnt tell me some inittab thing is missing?

any help would be very much appereciated