Problems from WinNT and NTrigue: Always asks for password

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

richard,

nt clients asking for passwords on shares means that the password it is
about to ask you for is going to be sent over-the-wire in clear-text.  not
that it tells you it's going to do this...



On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> someone who was on one of my TCP/IP courses recently asked about this:
> 
> >bottom is our Unix server and ulysses is our NTrigue server
> >connect from Unix system to NTrigue server (with same UID & password)
> >logon to NTrigue server
> >NTrigue automatically maps a Unix drive at connection time BUT ASKS FOR UNIX
> >PASSWORD (same as NTrigue)
> >correct password continues logon process.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience here ... The log file shows that
> connections were made, but no logon was attempted until later, which
> succeeded ...
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> -------
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