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FIX: Application Hangs When RasDial Is Used in a Service

Article ID: 181517

Article Last Modified on 10/15/2002

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition

This article was previously published under Q181517

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.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbapi kbnetwork kboswin2000fix KB181517