Microsoft KB Archive/101526

= RAS 1.X with NETBIOSTIMEOUT and NETBIOSRETRIES =

Article ID: 101526

Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006



This article was previously published under Q101526



SYMPTOMS
When you are loading RAS 1.X, the server responds with this error message:

The REMOTEACCESS service could not be started.

NET3055: A problem exists with the system configuration:

Security failure.

Error Log: NET3299: RAS0755: The Remote Access Service has not been granted permission to start.



CAUSE
Using the default parameters in the AsyBEUI sections of Protocol.ini and adjusting the parameters in the NetBEUI section cause you to receive the above errors. Here are the appropriate sections: Protocol.ini: . [ASYBEUI_XIF] DRIVERNAME = ASYBEUI$ BINDINGS = "ASY_NIF"

[ASY_NIF] DRIVERNAME=ASYMAC$

[NETBEUI_XIF] Drivername = netbeui$ BINDINGS = "ELNK3_NIF" SESSIONS = 124 NCBS = 255 NAMES= 50 NETBIOSTIMEOUT = 2000 NETBIOSRETRIES = 8 T1 = 1500 T2 = 600 TI = 3000 -- CONFIG.SYS:

IFS=C:\LANMAN\NETPROG\HPFS386.IFS /I:C:\LANMAN /CACHE:4096 /AUTOCHECK:C /MRAS:594

Device drivers are normal ELNK3, ASYBEUI, NETBEUI and COMTOKR



WORKAROUND
To get RAS to load, use information in the table below to alter NETBIOSTIMEOUT and/or NETBIOSRETRIES, in the NetBEUI section of Protocol.ini. NetBiosRetries      NetBiosTimeOut    Successful TOTAL --      --    -- -     5               2000                yes      10000 5              2100                yes      10500 5              2200                yes      11000 5              2300                yes      11500 5              2400                yes      12000 5              2500                 no      12500 5              4000                 no      20000 6              2000                yes      12000 7              1500                yes      10500 7              2000                 no      14000 8              1500                yes      12000 8              2000                 no      16000 9              1000                yes       9000 9              1500                 no      13500 10             1350                yes      13500 10             1400                 no      14000 12             1000                yes      12000 13             1000                yes      13000 13             1020                yes      13260 13             1025                yes      13325 15             1000                 no      15000 RAS loads if the product of the two parameters is less than 13000 and NETBIOSTIMEOUT is less than 2400.

Additional query words: RAS

Keywords: KB101526

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