Apple Network Setup manual Remote Access Notes

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Using Network Setup

//If the cursor doesn’t stop at the end of the packed preference data, a data format error occurs.

if ( (cursor - ((UInt8 *) packedPref)) != packedPrefSize) goto prefDataErr;

return noErr;

prefDataErr: return paramErr;

}

Remote Access Notes

A Remote Access network connection entity has a class of kOTCfgClassNetworkConnection and a type of kOTCfgTypeRemote and typically contains the following preferences:

■kOTCfgRemoteConnectPref, which contains core connection preferences. For details, see OTCfgRemoteConnect (page 127).

■kOTCfgRemoteUserPref, which contains the user name. For details, see OTCfgRemoteUserPref in the section “Apple Remote Access Constants and Other Data Types” (page 163).

■kOTCfgRemotePasswordPref, which contains the user’s encrypted password. For details, see the sample code below and OTCfgRemotePassword (page 135).

■kOTCfgRemoteAddressPref, which contains the phone number to dial. For details, see OTCfgRemoteAddressPref in the section “Apple Remote Access Constants and Other Data Types” (page 163).

■kOTCfgRemoteDialingPref, which contains redial preferences. For details, see

OTCfgRemoteDialing (page 131).

■kOTCfgRemoteClientMiscPref, which controls the “dial on demand” feature of IPCP. For details, see OTCfgRemoteClientMisc (page 127).

■kOTCfgRemoteIPCPPref, which contains low-level preferences for IPCP. You typically set this preference to a default value obtained by calling OTCfgGetDefault (page 90). For details, see OTCfgRemoteIPCP (page 132).

■kOTCfgRemoteLCPPref, which contains low-level preferences for LCP. You typically set this preference to a default value obtained by calling OTCfgGetDefault (page 90). For details, see OTCfgRemoteLCP (page 133).

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