[jcifs] Re: jcifs / davenport / dfs

[eglass1 at comcast.net]

> 
> [1] The jCIFS library will throw the now public DfsReferral if the
> supplied password hashes are "external" and a DFS referral has occured.
> The caller is then required to renegotiate the password hashes for the new
> target provided by the DfsReferral.node member. The simplest method for
> performing this renegotiation is to simply do resp.sendRedirect with the
> new URL as NetworkExplorer does.
> 

The redirect will probably cause issues with the WebDAV methods, however
(PROPFIND, etc.)  Will it work transparently with "internal" hashes (i.e.,
the password is available)?  Much as I hate to say it, I'm leaning more and
more toward using HTTP Basic as the default authentication mechanism for
Davenport:

    1) SMB signing is enabled by default on Win2k3, and requires the password.
    2) DFS may need the password to work properly with WebDAV.
    3) Most (non-MS) WebDAV clients don't support NTLM.


Eric