[jcifs] NTLM authentication unreliable

[Michael B Allen]

This sounds like the "hiccup bug". See also:

 http://lists.samba.org/archive/jcifs/2008-October/008227.html

Mike

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Bill Comer <bill.comer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using [the NTLM HTTP Authentication Filter from] jcifs-1.2.25 with
> spring-security-2.0.4
>
> I have an application which has been running either locally or on test
> servers happily authenticating myself
> with the companies Active Directory.
>
> Very occasionally for me and almost 100% of the time for other users
> authentication will fail with:
<snip>
> jcifs.smb.SmbAuthException: Access is denied.
>     at jcifs.smb.SmbTransport.checkStatus(SmbTransport.java:515)
>     at jcifs.smb.SmbTransport.send(SmbTransport.java:629)
>     at jcifs.smb.SmbSession.sessionSetup(SmbSession.java:288)
>     at jcifs.smb.SmbSession.send(SmbSession.java:233)
>     at jcifs.smb.SmbTree.treeConnect(SmbTree.java:161)

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