[jcifs] understanding server challenge change

[Michael B Allen]

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leostone said:
> thanks, but the resource is on the server for wich i get the challenge.

Then it should work. Does the NetworkExplorer example work?

Can you manually create an NtlmPasswordAuthentication object and access
the desired resource?

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
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>>
>>On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:41:55 +0400
>>leostone <leostone at mail.ru> wrote:
>>
>>> hi, i have some trouble with changing server challenges.
>>> i do SmbSession.getChallenge(ipOfTargetServer), then i feed this
>>> challenge
>>>
>>> to NtlmSsp.authenticate() wich returns an NtlmPasswordAuthentication
>>> object. Next thing i do is creating a SmbFile using this
>>> NtlmPasswordAuthentication object and do a SmbFile.connect();
>>> The trouble is, on a WinXP target server this works, on a Win2K server
>>> the
>>> challenge changes and i get a SmbAuthException from the
>>> SmbFile.connect()
>>> method. Can someone explain what might be going on and how i could fix
>>> it.
>>
>>An NtlmPasswordAuthentication object is only valid with the server
>>from which it's challenge originated. If you wish to access resources
>>on arbirary hosts you must renegotiate NTLMSSP with a challenge for
>>each host.
>>
>>This can be tricky because you usually need to track these credentials
>>separately. See how jcifs.http.NetworkExplorer keeps track of creds with
>>req.getSession().setAttribute( "npa-" + server, ntlm );
>>
>>Mike
>>
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