Microsoft® Windows Server 2003: Administrator’s Companion
by Charlie Russel, Sharon Crawford, Jason Gerend
Using the RADIUS Proxy
New in IAS for Windows Server 2003 is the ability to act as a RADIUS proxy. A RADIUS proxy server passes messages between two different account databases. You would use IAS as a RADIUS proxy if you wanted to provide authentication and authorization for user accounts that are not members of the same domain as the IAS server or members of a trusted domain. Use the RADIUS proxy if you need to authenticate using a non-Windows database such as a SQL or Novell Directory Services database.
To authenticate and authorize messages between two databases, you need a primary and secondary IAS server for each database. After IAS is installed and configured on domain controllers, add the RADIUS clients.
The next step is to create a connection ...
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