[jcifs] Re: NTLM authentication through apache

[al]

Eric Glass <eric.glass <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> It's likely that Apache is closing the connection at some point.  For
> IE to work, it needs a persistent connection from the Type 1 message
> on.  Mozilla is more tolerant of connection closes, which would
> explain why that browser works.
> 
> I'm not terribly familiar with Apache configuration, but see this:
> 
>     http://lists.samba.org/archive/jcifs/2004-January/002906.html
> 
> This sounds similar to what you're getting.  If that doesn't work, you
> can send me a packet capture and I'll have a look.
> 

This was sort of the problem. It wasn't so much as that snippet of code (We
don't use IE 4.0 browsers, shame on those who do!), but there was global
variable called KeepAlive that was set to off when it should have been on.

Thanks tho,
Alvin