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Issues with Wireless Connection in RC1, does not authenticate on client side for some reason

Author
18 Sep 2006 8:07 PM
Edward Ray
My wireless connection is not functional in Vista RC1.  It uses a Windows
2003 IAS and WPA-Enterprise and was working fine in XP SP2 before I upgraded
to Vista RC1.  The Event logs on the DC/IAS machine shows successful user
and machine authentication via certificates, but the RC1 does not want to
accept it.  It continues to show "Attempting to authenticate."  Use of
tcpdump shows successful RADIUS authentication, so I am at a loss as to why
authentication does not complete.  Successful user authentications are
filling up my event logs on the DC/IAS!

In case that was the next question, this a Windows 2003 R2 Active Directory
Domain.  Wireless WPA-AES-Enterprise worked fine with XP SP2, and have
existing XP SP2 boxes in the domain with wireless connection that
authenticate fine.  The Windows 2003 R2 DC/IAS shows MANY successful IAS
authenticationEvent ID's in system event log, which denotes access granted.
No errors in the Windows Vista Event logs either.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!


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Edward Ray
CCIE Security, CISSP, GCIA Gold, GCIH Gold, MCSE+Security, PE

Author
1 Nov 2006 10:30 AM
Giles Wendes
Try RC2?

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"Edward Ray" wrote:

> My wireless connection is not functional in Vista RC1.  It uses a Windows
> 2003 IAS and WPA-Enterprise and was working fine in XP SP2 before I upgraded
> to Vista RC1.  The Event logs on the DC/IAS machine shows successful user
> and machine authentication via certificates, but the RC1 does not want to
> accept it.  It continues to show "Attempting to authenticate."  Use of
> tcpdump shows successful RADIUS authentication, so I am at a loss as to why
> authentication does not complete.  Successful user authentications are
> filling up my event logs on the DC/IAS!
>
> In case that was the next question, this a Windows 2003 R2 Active Directory
> Domain.  Wireless WPA-AES-Enterprise worked fine with XP SP2, and have
> existing XP SP2 boxes in the domain with wireless connection that
> authenticate fine.  The Windows 2003 R2 DC/IAS shows MANY successful IAS
> authenticationEvent ID's in system event log, which denotes access granted.
> No errors in the Windows Vista Event logs either.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> --
> Edward Ray
> CCIE Security, CISSP, GCIA Gold, GCIH Gold, MCSE+Security, PE
>