bekdik
Honorary Master
QUESTION:
I know I'm late to this game but I just recently installed Service Pack 3 on my XP computer. Everything went okay except I've discovered that the Authentication tab isn't there any more on the Properties of the Local Area Connection (my Ethernet network). I would like to be able to configure this as I did before with Service Pack 2. Any ideas? - Jay L.
ANSWER:
In XP with SP2, the Wireless Zero Configuration service handled the connection and it was always running by default. In SP3, this behavior was changed because of support for Network Access Protection (NAP). Now wired Ethernet connections are managed by the DOT3SVC service. By default this service is set to start manually. When the service isn't started, the Authentication tab isn't available. To start the service, Click Start | Run and types services.msc to open the Services console. Scroll down to Wired AutoConfig. This is the DOT3SVC. Right click it and click Start. You can also set this service to start automatically in the future.
I know I'm late to this game but I just recently installed Service Pack 3 on my XP computer. Everything went okay except I've discovered that the Authentication tab isn't there any more on the Properties of the Local Area Connection (my Ethernet network). I would like to be able to configure this as I did before with Service Pack 2. Any ideas? - Jay L.
ANSWER:
In XP with SP2, the Wireless Zero Configuration service handled the connection and it was always running by default. In SP3, this behavior was changed because of support for Network Access Protection (NAP). Now wired Ethernet connections are managed by the DOT3SVC service. By default this service is set to start manually. When the service isn't started, the Authentication tab isn't available. To start the service, Click Start | Run and types services.msc to open the Services console. Scroll down to Wired AutoConfig. This is the DOT3SVC. Right click it and click Start. You can also set this service to start automatically in the future.