VPN Server Authentication Problem

[AnonGod]

Hi there -

I have a VPN server with 2 nic's, one inside 192.168.0.16, one outside 209.xxx.xxx.100. Server is part of my domain and uses PPTP for the VPN tunnel.

When a user tries to connect, they are getting denied, prompting for a username and password. Username for testing is "vpn". User set up both on DOMAIN and VPNSERVER. The event logs on the server read as follows:

Source: RemoteAccess
EventID: 20189
The user DOMAIN\vpn CONNECTED FROM 65.xxx.xxx.221 but failed an authentication attempt due to the following reason: There was an authentication failure because of an unknown user name or a bad password.

Microsoft has no KB article nor does the web in general.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

-Andrew

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[John Lewis]

Try this?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;266460

 

[GlenJohnson]

Is your authentication at the VPN level or domain level? Glen A. Johnson
Johnson Computer Consulting
MCP W2K
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[AnonGod]

Thank you for the quick response. Sorry I could not reply earlier.

I have seen that KB article and have tried changing the policy for dial-in media. To no avail.

And I have tried authenticating to both the local VPN box and the domain it is attached to. Both are returning the same error message.


But this issue is resolved.
When I got on the local VPN box, I could not access anything else on the local network. All authentication was failing. I tried service packs and Windows Update and removing and re-adding it to the domain, but nothing would let me browse the network from the VPN box.
So I rebuilt the darn thing.

Do you have any idea what could have caused a machine to basically be disowned by the domain?

Odd, but resolved.
Thank you.
-Andrew

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[GlenJohnson]

Without more details, I couldn't tell you what went wrong, but I'm glad it's resolved. Have a good one.

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Johnson Computer Consulting
MCP W2K
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