Dial up authentication.

[muppet]

Hi, can anyone help with this ? :

Newly built laptop running XP SP1a, IE6 sp1.
I have created a DUN connection in XP which dials into our
company network (through an NT4 RAS server), which works
fine.
However if I try to connect through IE, it fails
authentication; "Invalid user name or password."

This defies logic to me, as I thought it would use all the
same login info. I have ticked the box to pass domain
name (required), tried re-inputting the username & pw, and
double checked all the other settings I can think of.

Any help/ideas appreciated.

 

[muppet]

-----Original Message-----

Hi, can anyone help with this ? :

Newly built laptop running XP SP1a, IE6 sp1.
I have created a DUN connection in XP which dials into our
company network (through an NT4 RAS server), which works
fine.
However if I try to connect through IE, it fails
authentication; "Invalid user name or password."

This defies logic to me, as I thought it would use all the
same login info. I have ticked the box to pass domain
name (required), tried re-inputting the username & pw, and
double checked all the other settings I can think of.

Any help/ideas appreciated.
.

Looks like I've solved this myself; just
installed 'Mozilla Firefox', it doesn't seem to have the
problem that IE6 has. Oh and it looks better and appears
to have more features.
I've raised a MS Premier support call on this, as yet no
response. I'd like to switch browsers, but this would
represent a major policy change (BIG company), where will
it all end ? Linux ?

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Hi, can anyone help with this ? :

Newly built laptop running XP SP1a, IE6 sp1.
I have created a DUN connection in XP which dials into our
company network (through an NT4 RAS server), which works
fine.

So this means that you can logon your network and establish
a connection?

However if I try to connect through IE, it fails
authentication; "Invalid user name or password."

After the connection has been authenticated
the first secure page requires userid and password?

Trace it and find out what is being sent.

One possibility is that you could have Anonymous logon specified
in the Security Settings under User Authentication.
There is provision for Automatic logon but its default is
"only in Intranet zone" so then maybe the web page is
in the wrong zone.

If that's not it check the web page's certificate.

Or give a better description of what you are doing
and seeing.

BTW this question is slightly off-topic for this newsgroup.
You may get better assistance from a newsgroup which
specializes in security for your OS.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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