Question

I am trying to connect using RASDIAL API on windows vista and windows 7. I am able to easily do this on windows XP systems.

I am not able to connect on windows vista and windows 7 only in release build. I am able to do this via the debug builds. Any idea why this is happening? I have written down the code i am using for this.

I am using the Aventail VPN 10.x apis to set custom auth data.

            NGCUSTOMAUTHDATA NgAuthData;
            NgAuthData.dwSize = sizeof(NgAuthData);
            NgAuthData.dwOptions = NGCAD_OPTION_DisableGUI;
            NgAuthData.dwAuthType = 2;

            DWORD returnError=StringCbCopy( NgAuthData.szRealm,sizeof(NgAuthData.szRealm), wstringGroupName.c_str());
            if (returnError != ERROR_SUCCESS){
                return error;
            }

            DWORD nError = RasSetCustomAuthData(
                pbkPath.c_str(),
                wstringProfile.c_str(),
                (BYTE *)&NgAuthData, NgAuthData.dwSize );

            // Fill RASDIALPARAMS structure
            RASDIALPARAMS rasdialparams; 
            rasdialparams.dwSize = sizeof(RASDIALPARAMS);

            returnError |= StringCbCopy( rasdialparams.szEntryName,
                sizeof(rasdialparams.szEntryName), wstringProfile.c_str() );
            returnError |= StringCbCopy( rasdialparams.szPhoneNumber,
                sizeof(rasdialparams.szPhoneNumber), wstringUrl.c_str() );
            returnError |= StringCbCopy( rasdialparams.szUserName,
                sizeof(rasdialparams.szUserName), wstringUser.c_str());
            returnError |= StringCbCopy( rasdialparams.szPassword,
                sizeof(rasdialparams.szPassword), wstringPassword.c_str() );
            returnError |= StringCbCopy( rasdialparams.szDomain,
                sizeof(rasdialparams.szDomain), wstringGroupName.c_str());
            returnError |= StringCbCopy( rasdialparams.szDomain,
                sizeof(rasdialparams.szDomain), L"\0");

            if (returnError != ERROR_SUCCESS){
                return error;
            }

Most of the time, I keep getting internal authentication error.
Please could you point me to the issue???

Answer 1

It was because I wasn’t initializing all the parameters in rasdialparams. Also we need to set the mask param in the ngauthdata to its respective values before we use it.