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July 25, 2007 at 09:54 PM
stonec

Wireless security in 2003 server and vista clients.

by stonec . Updated 18 years, 6 months ago

I am having a problem getting my clients to connect to the server using IAS.

My setup:

Server 2003 Enterprise
lan1 – cable modem
lan2 – linksys wireless router wrt54gs v5

Clients – Windows Vista Home

I have set this up before however the only difference was I was using win XP clients. So far I cant get any client to connect or authenticate with the server there are a few error messages I get.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: IAS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 3
Date: 7/25/2007
Time: 1:37:29 AM
User: N/A
Computer: STONESERVER
Description:
Access request for user APARTMENT.LOCAL\stonec@apartment.local was discarded.
Fully-Qualified-User-Name = APARTMENT.LOCAL\stonec@apartment.local
NAS-IP-Address = 10.10.1.2
NAS-Identifier = 0016b6d77e9b
Called-Station-Identifier = 0016b6d77e9b
Calling-Station-Identifier = 00146cca8765
Client-Friendly-Name = WLAN
Client-IP-Address = 10.10.1.2
NAS-Port-Type = Wireless – IEEE 802.11
NAS-Port = 40
Proxy-Policy-Name = Use Windows authentication for all users
Authentication-Provider = Windows
Authentication-Server =
Reason-Code = 5
Reason = The user account domain cannot be accessed.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 ….

along with this one

Event Type: Error
Event Source: IAS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5052
Date: 7/25/2007
Time: 1:37:22 AM
User: N/A
Computer: STONESERVER
Description:
There is no domain controller available for domain APARTMENT.LOCAL.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I have already checked and registered IAS with AD. I am not exactly an expert on this and could use any suggestions. I am wondering if its a problem with vista or maybe something on that end is different than XP, however I dont see a whole lot of options when configuring the wireless.
I have heard that IAS can be touchy when connecting so i tried user + password + doman as well as user@domain and from what i have searched I cant really find a good article that shows how to set this up from scratch. All this is is a basic 1 server and a few client setup I just want to beef up the security by adding domain authentication and eventualy certificates (service is already installed)

One thing I am not sure of is in the linksys setup for wireless security there are many options that include a radius server WPA Enterprise, WPA2 Enterprise as well as RADIUS, another question is which one should I be useing, the RADIUS option has a WEP key in it as well but I dont have any option to use it either in the server setup nor the clients. Can someone enlightn me?

Any help would be appreciated thanks.

if you need any more information i will gladly provide it.

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