Help with RAS on NT4

[miken]

Hi, i'm having a problem with Remote Access Service. I am running this on a Dual PII 300 Compaq Prosignia 300 server. The server has 160M of RAM and plenty (4G) of free HD space in a Mirror RAID setup. I have two external 56 and 33.6k modem attached to the server with a Digi board. (Allows for more physical COM ports. This Digi uses a 8250 UART, not a 16550.

The problem is, when people call in, sometimes they can access the server and sometimes they cannot. This server is a NT4 BDC with SP6. Sometimes the Logon Scripts will run, and sometimes they won't. The event log says they are authenticated, but they cannot browse the server. Other times they can do anything. Also the speed will vary from 19.2 to 31200, but even on the 56k it will not go higher. I have tried bypassing the DIGI board and connecting the 56k directly to the physical COM1 on the server with no increase in bandwidth. I thought that external modems had internal 16550 UART's that allowed for more than 33.6? Isn't that true?

I run a VPN with this server also (Virtual Private Network) which will also not allow browsing all the time.

I am stumped, if ANYONE has any ideas, please share them.

thanks!

 

[TheViper6]

You wll not get 56K out of it, even if both sides are 56K and the lines are good, your switching from digital (PC) to analog (phone line) to digital (telco) to analog (other POTS) then back to digital, this converting process kills ANY hope of getting 56K, the thing behind getting 56K is ONE conversion from analog to digital, not analog to digital and back to analog, won't work. Your clients, are they running windows 98?? the script running and access to the servers is an authentication problem, even tho they get in on RAS, it doesn't mean they are "logged in", so back to my question, are the clients 98?

 

[miken]

Wel that sucks! Yes, they are 98. If it's authentication though, why can they log in 60% of the time without problems?

Thanks for your reply!

 

[TheViper6]

If they are running 98, make sure when they startup, that they hit cancel when it asks them to login, then make sure their VPN setup is set to login to network, if they enter a password on startup, it logs them into their PC, and it will not let them run loggin scripts, but they can auth. with the RAS server, but with no access to the network.