Microsoft KB Archive/181517

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FIX: Application Hangs When RasDial Is Used in a Service

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Q181517

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0

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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
This problem was corrected in Microsoft Windows 2000.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbnetwork kbAPI kbOSWinNT400bug kbOSWin2000fix kbRAS kbSDKPlatform kbGrpDSNet

Issue type : kbbug

Technology : kbWinNTsearch kbWinNTWsearch kbWinNTW400 kbWinNTW400search kbWinNT400xsearch