Re: couldn't open server to find servers

Kevin Ingram ( (no email) )
Fri, 5 Jun 1998 20:12:49 -0500

I have several RRAS machines authenticating from RadiusNT, and other than
deleting the keys in the registry there was nothing special about it-- BUT,
I am still running the older, less featured 1.xx versions of RadiusNT. The
key to your problem may be unique to the newer versions.

Kevin Ingram
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Mahler <Jerry_Mahler@mw.3com.com>
To: radiusnt@iea-software.com <radiusnt@iea-software.com>
Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: couldn't open server to find servers

>Deleting the keys didn't seem to work. Now the NT machine I am dialing in
>on complains that there are no authentication protocols available, and the
>call is dropped even before a RADIUS request is made.
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>Any other ideas of what the problem could be?
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>I think my setup is about as simple and plain as can be -- nothing at all
>strange. Did anyone else have to do anything special to get RadiusNT to
>work with Windows NT RRAS?
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>-Jerry
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>"Dale E. Reed Jr." <daler@iea-software.com> on 06/05/98 01:03:21 PM
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>Please respond to radiusnt@iea-software.com
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>To: radiusnt@iea-software.com
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>Subject: Re: couldn't open server to find servers
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>On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Kevin Ingram wrote:
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>> I don't know about the most recent RRAS, but most versions you must
>delete
>> the CHAP & SPAP keys in (I think) HKLM\SYSTEM\SERVICES\RASMAN\PPP (pulled
>> from memory, if not correct email me). Restart NT machine and try it
>again.
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>ALthough you may not want to always do CHAP, RadiusNT 2.5 does support
>the CHAP attributes as sent by RRAS.
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>> Kevin Ingram
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jerry Mahler <Jerry_Mahler@mw.3com.com>
>> To: radiusnt@iea-software.com <radiusnt@iea-software.com>
>> Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 10:42 AM
>> Subject: Re: couldn't open server to find servers
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>> >I have a Windows 95 machine dialing into a Windows NT 4.0 machine, which
>is
>> >running RRAS. The Windows NT machine is using RadiusNT 25 for
>> >authentication. RadiusNT is running on a separate Windows NT 4.0
>machine.
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>> >Everytime I try to dial in with the Windows 95 machine, I get rejected.
>> >Below is a copy of the radius debug output.
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>> >=================
>> > radrecv: Request from host 9570a48a code=1, id=3, length=63
>> > User-Name = "test"
>> > CHAP-Challenge =
>> >"\325\030\342\017b\3130\014\320\216\244\213\225\220\275\001"
>> > Challenge-Response =
>> >"\001)\306\244\366\235\260l-'\351\317\241\342\206\024\346"
>> > Checking user record PW_PASSWORD type
>> > authChapPwd
>> > Sending Reject of id 3 to 9570a48a (149.112.164.138)
>> >=================
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>> >I have verified that the secret on Windows NT RRAS matches that of the
>> >clients file on the RadiusNT machine.
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>> >Any ideas? Perhaps I have a setting incorrect in RRAS???
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>Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
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