I was incorrect, each building is it's own site in AD & it's own subnet,
which is a /16 on a private class A.


On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Robert Portvliet <
[email protected]> wrote:

> That was going to be my next move, mirror the switchport the AP is plugged
> into & take a capture of the auth attempt. (I'll do that tomorrow morning)
>
> Like I said I'm coming into this a bit after the fact & didn't do the
> initial setup, but yes the cert is self signed & generated using Microsoft
> CA (I'll look into the settings further though), the clients are all Vista
> btw.
>
> As far as the network, it's flat with layer 3 routing only in the core
> switch, each building is on it's own vlan, but the wireless vlan is the same
> no matter what building you are in, as far as AD goes there's only one site,
> each building is an OU under that.
>
> I'm more of a Linux\Unix guy so I'm a bit light in the AD end of things, I
> think it might be something to do with policy, but according to the systems
> engineer you should be getting the same policy no matter where you go.
>
> Thanks much for the help!
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Tim Mugherini <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Robert,
>>
>> First I would not trust the Radius server logs, grab  a packet dump to
>> verify they are not trying to auth as the computer acct (I have seen
>> MS IAS not log attempts so even though I have no experience with 2k8
>> NPS I would not trust the logs)
>>
>> Also you mentioned diff buildings, diff subnets? AD sites?
>>
>> Lastly you mentioned certifcates are you using a self signed on the
>> Radius server, MS CA? If MS CA what are your GO settings for the
>> Radius and Certs (have seen issues with MS CA and "verification" on XP
>> so just a hunch on my part.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Robert Portvliet
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >  I'm attempting to troubleshoot an issue with an implementation of WPA2
>> &
>> > RADIUS with certificates (for wireless authentication), it is a somewhat
>> > perplexing issue which I am hoping someone on the list may be able to
>> > provide some guidance on.
>> >
>> >  In the building local to the Radius server, the machine will
>> authenticate
>> > to the Radius server using the machine name without issue, however in
>> the
>> > other buildings the same machine (even using the same access point) will
>> > never try to pass the machine name to authenticate.. it passes the user
>> > name, which works if we allow that method of authentication, but it's
>> not
>> > what we're after obviously.
>> >
>> >  The strange thing is I see no trace in the Radius server log of it even
>> > trying the machine name and the policy the machine receives should be
>> the
>> > same in each building.
>> >
>> >   For the Radius server I am using NPS on win2k8. the client machines
>> are
>> > Vista (latest patch level), AP's are HP ProCurve, physical media is
>> single
>> > mode fiber between the buildings.
>> >
>> >   I came into this a little late in the game, from what I can tell
>> > everything seems to be configured correctly, but I'm getting the feeling
>> I'm
>> > missing something stupid, lol
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance!
>> >
>> >
>> >
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