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SYMPTOMSWindows NT Remote Access Clients cannot be validated if the password contains extended characters. Extended characters have ASCII codes above 128. CAUSEIf your Windows NT RAS client password contains any Extended characters, RAS client authentication will not properly convert their case (that is, uppercase versus lowercase). This will cause Windows NT RAS authentication to fail. It works fine for characters "a-z" and "A-Z." RESOLUTION
Until a bug fix is released, do not use extended characters in your
Windows NT passwords. This is especially true for Remote Access and
Services for Macintosh. STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT and Windows NT
Advanced Server version 3.1. This problem was corrected in the latest U.S.
Service Pack for Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1. For
information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
S E R V P A C K REFERENCES
- For more information about why RAS must convert the character case
of passwords, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
RAS and LAN and Manager and Password and Authentication
Keywords : kbnetwork ntras kbbug3.10 NTSrvWkst |
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