BUG: Application Hangs When RasDial Is Used in a Service

ID: Q181517

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When you use RasDial() in a stand-alone application and an invalid username or password is supplied, the following error message appears:

ERROR_AUTHENTICATION_FAILURE

However when an application calls RasDial() to dial in a service with an invalid username or password, you get an Access Violation at location 0000:0000.

RESOLUTION

You must ensure that a valid username and password is either hard-coded, or, if you have a GUI, then you need to prompt the users to enter a valid username and password in order to prevent the application from hanging.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this bug and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbnetwork kbAPI kbNTOS400bug kbRAS kbSDKPlatform kbGrpNet
Version : winnt:4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug