[jcifs] Performing Only Password Authentication against a Domain

[Pope, Tony]

Nick,
 
Actually, it isn't even necessary to create the share.  If you simply attempt to check the existence of a share that does not exist, the first thing jcifs does is still attempt to authenticate the username and password it is provided.  If that fails, you will get an Access denied error:  if the credentials are ok, you will get a return value of false on the existence check.
 
This eliminates the need to create a share, and can work against domains without any knowledge of the shares available.
 
Tony

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Nick Newman [mailto:NNewman at scientech.com] 
	Sent: Mon 8/26/2002 1:17 PM 
	To: jcifs at lists.samba.org 
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	Subject: [jcifs] Performing Only Password Authentication against a Domain
	
	

	Hi,
	
	I have a client who wants to check name/password information against an NT
	domain, but from within Java.  The jCIFS software lets me do this
	indirectly by using the following scheme:
	
	1) Make a share which is accessible only to that domain.
	2) Try to access the share with jCIFS (sending the name and password)
	3) Security exception means bad name/password, success means good
	name/password.
	
	My question is, is there a better way to use jCIFS - a way that does a
	direct check of the name/password against the domain without the trick of
	trying to access something?  (If not, I can certainly use the above scheme
	- but if I can do better I'd like to).
	
	Thanks,
	Nick