[jcifs] Some questions about Windows vs Linux

[Allen, Michael B (RSCH)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tyrrell, James [SMTP:JTyrrell at AEGONUSA.com]
> Sent:	Monday, March 24, 2003 4:24 PM
> To:	'jcifs at lists.samba.org'
> Subject:	[jcifs] Some questions about Windows vs Linux
> 
> Everyone,
> 
> All comments have to do with the jcifs.http.NtlmHttpFilter.
> I have playing with this package over the last few days and can not seem to
> get this to work under Linux but it works fine under windows.
> 
> Some questions:
> 1.)  If this can work under Linux how are you supposed to test it, looking
> at the code it looks like if I hit this from Mozilla then it will return to
> me an HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED?  The docs at
> http://jcifs.samba.org/src/docs/ntlmhttpauth.html seem to indicate if a user
> is not authenticated then there user name gotten with a
> request.getUserName() is not set, however I just get a can not get to error
> in the logs of 401.
> 
	Mozilla does not support NTLM HTTP authentication. This only works with
	MSIE clients.

> 2.)  I am running the same configuration of Jetty on Linux and Windows the
> windows server from ie gives me the user name as I would have thought,
> however hitting the Linux box a prompt is given to the ie user and even with
> 
	If it works from one client against the windows server and using the same client
	against the linux server gives you a password dialog then it looks like it's trying
	to negotiate some other authentication. Perhaps plain.

> everything passed in they are still unable to get access.  Has anyone used
> this on Linux and hit a windows domain controller and gotten the user name.
> 
	Yes.

> Does anyone use Jetty or should I use Tomcat?
> 
	I have only really used Resin. My understanding is that Tomcat works but there
	are reported problems with IE 6 and/or Win98 clients.

> 3.)  I tried to turn on the logging from the web.xml file with the parameter
> syntax but that did not work, why?  Again I looked at the code and I would
> have thought this would have worked.
> 
	How are you trying to provoke logging? If you pass -Dlog=ALL as a VM
	parameter it should log to stderr wherever that goes. Otherwise I do not believe
	setting it after jCIFS classes are loaded will have any effect.

> I am at wits end after spending all day on this.  Any feedback would be a
> great help.  This is so cool that this works from windows, but I am stumped
> as to my Linux issues.
> 
	The quickest way to get to the bottom of this is to get an Ethereal or Netmon
	packet capture. Don't post it to the list, send it to me directly.

> I should add that I changed my hosts file on Linux to resolve my IP address
> from 127.0.0.1 to my assigned one and I have tried several domain
> controllers.  I will also add that I am not getting any errors at all echoed
> anywhere.
> 
> Thank You
> Jim Tyrrell
> 
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