[jcifs] Request.getRemoteUser() - Mozilla and IE differs

[Ghouse, Sherjeel]

I had a similar situation where Application was accessed using different browsers and over VPN (trusted domains).  Since my application is Servlet based. I was able to trim the domain name(Intranet, VPN, IE) or no domain (in case of FireFox) by overriding get() of the HttpServlet. You could use StrinkTokenizer or whatever logic to figure out if domain name comes in getRemoteUser() or not. You could then store the UserName in HttpSession to be used all over your application. 
 
Hope that helps.
 
-Sherjeel

	-----Original Message-----
	From: jcifs-bounces+sghouse=molex.com at lists.samba.org [mailto:jcifs-bounces+sghouse=molex.com at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Göran Karlsson (KA/EAB)
	Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:38 AM
	To: jcifs at lists.samba.org
	Subject: [jcifs] Request.getRemoteUser() - Mozilla and IE differs
	
	

	Hello! 

	Update: I got the Ntlmfilter working on Tomcat now. I had other filters at the same time, and I inserted the Ntlmfilter in the wrong place. I put it last instead of first.

	Now I have another problem. When I get the client user ID in a servlet with request.getRemoteUser() IE will give me domain\userid while Mozilla Firefox will give me only the userid. The domain should be the same for all the users in this case, so I could work around this by checking if the domain is there and in that case cut it off, or append it if it's not there. But the problem is that a lot of existing code is using getRemoteUser, and I can't go around and handle this everywhere. 

	So how do I get the user id in the same way from both browsers? Surely somebody else here has had the same problem? 

	My filter configuration is as follows: 

	  <filter> 
	    <filter-name>NtlmHttpFilter</filter-name> 
	    <filter-class>jcifs.http.NtlmHttpFilter</filter-class> 
	    <init-param> 
	      <param-name>jcifs.smb.client.domain</param-name> 
	      <param-value>EEMEA</param-value> 
	    </init-param> 
	    <init-param> 
	      <param-name>jcifs.netbios.wins</param-name> 
	      <param-value>153.88.193.201,147.214.112.67</param-value> 
	    </init-param> 
	  </filter> 

	Any ideas are greatly appreciated. 

	/Göran 



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