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- DOCUMENT:Q103499 04-NOV-1993 [W_NT]
- TITLE :RAS "Enter Manual Commands" Feature Problems
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
-
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
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-
- Remote Access Service (RAS) for Windows NT has a new feature called
- Manual Dial. With this feature, you can manually enter AT commands
- directly to the modem. This is particularly useful when
- troubleshooting RAS modem problems. However, there are a few minor
- problems with this feature that may affect its usefulness.
-
- You can enable this feature in RAS Phone by editing a phone book
- entry. In the RAS Phone utility, choose Advanced, and then choose the
- Modem button. Select the Enter Modem Commands Manually check box at
- the bottom. Now when you dial the phone book entry, you will be
- presented with a new terminal screen. You are now able to directly
- interact with the modem using AT commands.
-
- Possible Problems
- -----------------
-
- Cut\Paste commands:
-
- If you cut and paste modem commands into the terminal screen, they are
- not sent to the modem. Only manually typed commands are accepted. This
- can be troublesome if you are tweaking long initialization strings. You
- need to type the entire command for each test.
-
- 668\620 Error:
-
- If you are not connected when you choose the Done button, you will
- receive the error message "All devices connected. Error 668: The
- connection dropped."
-
- On your next dial attempt, you may receive the error message "All
- devices connected. Error 620: There are no endpoints."
-
- This will be followed by the 668 error again.
-
- 1. Dial Phone Book Entry with the manual commands check box selected.
-
- 2. Enter ATDT (phone number) in the terminal.
-
- The modems will connect.
-
- 3. Choose Done to close terminal as normal.
-
- You will probably receive 620 error.
-
- If you dial a nonmanual entry from the phone book, it should work. You
- may need to exit the RAS Phone utility to correct this behavior.
-
- Change Initial Speed bps:
-
- If you change the bps speed in the Modem Button Screen in RAS Phone,
- you may receive garbage in the manual command terminal screen.
-
- For example, if you change from 38400 to 9600 bps, the manual command
- terminal works but sometimes the system will not see connect string.
-
- More often, if it fails with 668 or 620 error for some reason, the
- next dial command will get garbage from the modem on first screen
- line.
-
- STATUS
- ======
-
- Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.1
- and Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1. We are researching this
- problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge
- Base as it becomes available.
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10
- KBCategory:
- KBSubCategory: ntrmt
-
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