Can't join server - "authentication failed"

Hi all, I also experienced this issue when hosting a Conan server on a physical machine I own that’s running Windows 7. The issue I discovered is due to Funcom’s new PoS live service nonsense, it attempts to authenticate the user when they the join the server, and this authentication is done over a secure connection. Windows 7 for example does not use TLS 1.2 by default and without in enabled caused me to receive the same error you’re getting. I resolved it by doing the following.

  1. Open the Internet Options window (you can simply search for “internet options”)
  2. Go to the Advanced tab
  3. Scroll down through the settings list till you reach the Security section
  4. Check the box for “Use TLS 1.2” (I left the “Use TLS 1.0” checkbox checked as well, I don’t think it matters though)

Hopefully this will help some of you out.