Re: Securing Wireless LANs with PEAP and Passwords

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From: James McIllece [MS] (jamesmci_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/04/04


Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 14:09:29 -0700


"Jesper Harder" <-J-esper-H-arder@gts.dk> wrote in
news:cdnsgh$lab$1@news.cybercity.dk:

> Hi Group
>
> Following the guidelines in the Microsoft paper "Securing Wireless
> LANs with PEAP and Passwords"
> I'm having problems getting things to work.
>
> My setup consists of a Lucent AP500 Access Point with 802.1x turned
> on. Server is DC, CA, IAS Windows 2003
> Clients is Windows XP SP1, IBM Think Pad
>
> I have created everything (I think) following the white paper.
>
> My problem is the clients cannot connect to the 802.1x wlan.
>
> The log shows nothing, except if the user is not allowed wireless
> access. In the Server Event viewer i get the following:
>
> Access request for user xxxxx\Administrator was discarded.
> Fully-Qualified-User-Name = xxxxxx\Administrator
> NAS-IP-Address = 172.16.16.240
> NAS-Identifier = AP500-1
> Called-Station-Identifier = 00053c041b9a
> Calling-Station-Identifier = 00601d1f7391
> Client-Friendly-Name = 172.16.16.240 HTXL
> Client-IP-Address = 172.16.16.240
> NAS-Port-Type = Wireless - IEEE 802.11
> NAS-Port = <not present>
> Proxy-Policy-Name = Use Windows authentication for all users
> Authentication-Provider = Windows
> Authentication-Server = <undetermined>
> Reason-Code = 97
> Reason = The authentication request was not processed because it
> contained
> a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) message that was
> not appropriate for the secure authentication transaction.
>
>
> On the client i can see the computer is trying to authenticate for at
> while, then fails.
>
>
> Any ideas out there ?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best regards
>
> Jesper Harder
>
>
>
>

Hi Jesper --

I'm not certain what problem you're having, but you may want to review this
other whitepaper to verify your deployment -- "Enterprise Deployment of
Secure 802.11 Networks Using Microsoft Windows" at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/ed80211.mspx

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