Re: Anyone on RAS services???

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From: Manjari Bonam [MSFT] (manjarib_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:06:46 +0530

Authentication provider failed to load and initialize. This could be because

(1) If configured for RADIUS authentication:

a. check whether the rasrad.dll file exists under
%SystemRoo%\system32.

b. RADIUS server name is misspelled or RADIUS server is not running.

(2) If configured for Windows authentication:

IAS Server initialization failed

Resolution: 

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- Manjari
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"Pal" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1830901c44a34$6d21c120$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello.
>
> It was all working fine in my W2K server. This morning
> noticed that RAS user was unable to connect to the RAS
> server. The event log shows, Event ID: 20152. The current
> configured authentication provider failed to initialize
> successfully. The parameter is incorrect. Tried several
> times to restart the service but no use. Also deleted the
> RAS configuration and recreated but back to same errors.
>
> I am not sure how to proceed on this error to get the RAS
> service up and running. Thank you in advance for your
> help.
>
> Pal.

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