[jcifs] Using JCIFS with JRun 4

[Michael B.Allen]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:17:00 +0800
"Jason Bainbridge" <jason.bainbridge at bms.net.au> wrote:

> Thanks for the quick response. :-)
> 
> I was suspecting something along the lines as what you suggested, so I
> have already tried using an external web server (IIS 5.0). This gave me a
> little more joy but I think the plugin wasn't passing through the
> authentication details as it would always prompt for the Login information
> even after entering correct details.

That sounds like a problem someone else reported 10 days ago. It had
something to do with api_redirect.dll but I didn't understand the details.

> I read a post on Google that confirmed this and someone had written their
> own plugin that did pass the authentication information through but
> unfortunately they were looking at whether there was a commercial market
> for such a product and unfortunately developing such a plugin probably
> goes beyond my expertise.
> 
> Tomorrow I might try the Apache plugin and see if I can have any luck with
> that, I'll also have a bit of a look around the web to see if I can find
> any information about getting JRun to accept persistent connections.

Do you have to use JRun? I was very impressed with Resin. That's what
I used when I wrote the original ntlm http auth code.

Mike

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