Miha Valencic » OS X http://www.mihavalencic.com Solving IT Challenges Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:32:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Airport Extreme and PPTP http://www.mihavalencic.com/2011/01/31/airport-extreme-and-pptp/ http://www.mihavalencic.com/2011/01/31/airport-extreme-and-pptp/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:38:01 +0000 miha http://www.mihavalencic.com/?p=295 I was having issues with VPN connection (PPTP to be exact) to my customer. I was connecting with Mac OS X and Windows (tried Windows 7 and Windows XP sp3) and could not make it work. All computers are behind Airport Extreme. When I connected to internet directly (not through Airport), everything worked fine. While googling around, I found many posts referring to a lengthy post describing to enable the default host on Airport base station. I had that configured already, so I was looking for solution elsewhere, since I just could not get the clients to connect. The error I was getting was “PPTP received unexpected message type = 6699“. And that error was printed in the log file after several sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] messages.
Airport-extreme-config
Since “Default host” setting is sort of dangerous (if don’t use a firewall), I decided to turn it off and to check with tcpdump what goes on on the wire (maybe the /var/log/ppp.log isn’t telling me everything).
To my surprise, PPTP connection was established successfully, so there is a hint for you: if you have problems establishing PPTP connection, try disabling the “Enable default host at” in your Airport configuration.

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On Mac OS X, there is Quicklook (just press spacebar on an image), then there is the Preview, but neither is well suited for ordinary photo viewing, where you sometimes crop an image and convert it to another format. IPhoto wants to import images and is most importantly not fast for viewing a single images now and then (or a folder of images). So, I found Xee, which seems great so far.

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