[jcifs] jCIFS Jboss Tomcat IIS NTLM Authentication

[Michael B Allen]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:21:47 -0600
"Scott Shaver" <Scott.Shaver at mcdata.com> wrote:

> So the question is: What is causing it to fail when going through IIS?
> 
> I'm only using the jcifs.http.domainController and jcifs.smb.client.domain settings in the web.xml for the filter.
> 
> Is it IIS? Is it the isapi_redirect ISAPI filter on IIS? Is it the AJP13 worker threads on the Jboss side? Is it something happening between the worker threads and the request hand-off to the tomcat server?

It's probably because the NTLM HTTP exchange is a non-HTTP conformant
3 message handshake:

  http://jcifs.samba.org/src/docs/ntlmhttpauth.html#proto

so if you have some ISAPI redirect thing in the way it's very likely to
mess things up.

Mike